“But your solitude, even in the midst of quite foreign circumstances, will be a hold and a home for you, and leading from it you will find all the paths you need.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“...love your solitude and bear the pain it causes you with melody wrought with lament. For the people who are close to you, you tell me, are far away, and that shows that you are beginning to create a wider space around you...take pleasure in your growth, which no one can accompany you, and be kind-…”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“Before meeting you, I didn’t know what it was like to feel lonely. I never even considered myself alone. That’s because when you feel lonely, it means there is someone for you to miss.”— Yuuki Obata, amazon.com
“Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate from the so-called social life. My days pass by in solitude.”— Ingmar Bergman, amazon.com
“More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to be close to someone. More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to feel as if I wasn't alone.”— James Frey, amazon.com
“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”— Blaise Pascal, amazon.com
“my dear, we are all made of water. it’s okay to rage. sometimes it’s okay to rest. to recede.”— Sanober Khan, amazon.com
“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.com
“I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“I’m tired of living unable to love anyone. I don’t have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can’t even love myself. Why is that? Why can’t I love myself? It’s because I can’t love anyone else. A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someon…”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.”— Albert Einstein, goodreads.com
“Dar’st thou amid the varied multitude To live alone, an isolated thing?”— Percy Bysshe Shelley, en.wikiquote.org
“Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.”— Erich Fromm, amazon.com
“I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of thinking and enjoying what they call living, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.”— Jack Kerouac, theculturium.com
“Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.”— Samuel Beckett, amazon.com
“My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“Even when I am alone, I have real good company - dreams and imaginations and pretendings.”— L. M. Montgomery, amazon.com
“I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com