“We shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you m…”— Hunter S. Thompson, goodreads.com
“I can't think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there's no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each…”— Franz Kafka, goodreads.com
“We are, on earth, two distinct races. Those who have need of others, whom others amuse, engage soothe, whom solitude harasses, pains, stupefies, like the movement of a terrible glacier or the traversing of the desert; and those, on the contrary, whom others weary, tire, bore, silently torture, whom…”— Guy de Maupassant, goodreads.com
“Oh the torture of never being left alone! I find it impossible to disentangle myself from those instincts, affections, passions, attachments…which bound me…from the first moment of consciousness to other people. I need solitude; I need to feel I belong to myself.’”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.ca
“Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery smoothly transferring you into another world. It doesn’t have to be a walk during which…”— Albert Camus, goodreads.com
“Beware of those that seek constant crowds. They are nothing alone.’”— Charles Bukowski, poemhunter.com
“I like people who dream or talk to themselves interminably; I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.”— Albert Camus, goodreads.com
“Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause of a room full of people when someon…”— Norton Juster, goodreads.com
“We can't underestimate the value of silence. We need to create ourselves, need to spend time alone. If you don't, you risk not knowing yourself and not realizing your dreams.”— Jewel, pinterest.com
“Introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything they value highly.”— Susan Cain, goodreads.com