Quotes About Solitude

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Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

Fernando Pessoa

If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.

Charles Bukowski

I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.

Charlotte Brontë

I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.

Joshua Slocum

Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.

Honoré de Balzac

Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

Jodi Picoult

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

Edward Gibbon

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

Blaise Pascal