(232 quotes found)
“I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other”
Rainer Maria Rilke
“In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.”
Laurence Sterne
“There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.”
Tom Hanks
“Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“I restore myself when I'm alone.”
Marilyn Monroe
“Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god”
“It is no surprise to me that hardly anyone tells the truth about how they feel. The smart ones keep themselves to themselves for good reason. Why would you want to tell anyone anything that's dear to you? Even when you like them and want nothing more than to be closer than close to them? It's so painful to be next to someone you feel strongly about and know you can't say the things you want to.”
Henry Rollins
“Solitude is independence.”
Hermann Hesse
“Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.”
Thomas Browne Sr.
“Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.”
Thomas Wolfe
