“So I just live with my insomnia. I do crossword puzzles, or wander out…or read. Those late hours when the world is completely still, when the only sound is the rustle of the air in the vents and the wind visiting the trees outside, when the darkness is tucked tight around the house and you feel as l…”— Stephen Goodwin, amazon.com
“Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison to you. But let this be your honor: always to love more than you are loved and never to be second in this.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony.”— Douglas Coupland, amazon.com
“I felt the most burning desire for once to be quite alone with my thoughts for a little while.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“The sole cause of a man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“The power to bring me out of solitude – or to push me back into it – had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.”— Martha Beck, edition.cnn.com
“There is no need for you to leave the house. Stay at your table and listen. Don’t even listen, just wait. Don’t even wait, be completely quiet and alone. The world will offer itself to you to be unmasked; it can’t do otherwise; in raptures it will writhe before you.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure in the landscape — the loneliness of it — the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.”— Andrew Wyeth, foxnews.com
“My alone feels so good, I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude.”— Warsan Shire, twitter.com
“Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.”— Nikola Tesla, npr.org
“I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“And I have only myself. The way it had always been and probably always would be.”— Tess Gerritsen, amazon.com
“In the world I am Always a stranger I do not understand its language It does not understand my silence.”— Bei Dao, goodreads.com
“Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.”— Jeremy Collier, goodreads.com