“Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.”— Herman Hesse, amazon.com
“Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.”— Hermann Hesse, amazon.com
“I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“When you are small, if you reach out, and nobody takes your hand, you stop reaching out, and reach inside, instead.”— Amanda Eyre Ward, amazon.com
“The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“Sometimes you’ve got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding.”— Christopher Barzak, amazon.com
“Why do people need other people so much? Why can’t we just do our work and go home? Why do we have to talk and touch and dream together?”— R.A. Nelson, amazon.com
“I never had that many friends growing up so I learned to be okay with just me.”— Priscilla Ahn, play.spotify.com
“I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen. When it does at last dawn on a [person] that you really want to hear about his business, the look that comes over his face is something to see.”— Walker Percy, amazon.com
“She wanted to be alone, but not lonely. That was very different; that was something that ached and hurt dreadfully right inside one.”— Elizabeth von Arnim, amazon.com
“I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.”— Henry David Thoreau, amazon.com
“You must learn one thing. The world was made to be free in. Give up all the other worlds except the one to which you belong. Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.”— David Whyte, amazon.com
“I don’t owe people anything, and I don’t have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to.”— Ned Vizzini, amazon.com
“You were so nice to me when I was having my problems, but now that you’re having yours, it seems there’s not a thing I can do for you. You’re all locked up in that little world of yours, and when I try knocking on the door, you just sort of look up for a second and go right back inside.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Some steps need to be taken alone. It’s the only way to really figure out where you need to go and who you need to be.”— Mandy Hale, amazon.com