Solitude Quotes

"Isn't it lovely, all alone" "Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other." "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found" "If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little" "The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries; on the contrary, a good marriage is one in which each partner appoints the other to be the guardian of his solitude." "There is no insurmountable solitude." "Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself." "Love is something more than desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives" "I look on the nights as a cup on which I have filled to the brim with my loneliness and thrown to the sky" "I have no ambitions nor desires. To be poet is not my ambition, it's my way of being alone." "Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself." "I will be glad to sit me down with any rock or any tree or any lone willow and call it brother" "Talent is formed in solitude, character in the stormy billows of the world" "One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like" "Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely." "I like for you to be still: it is as though you are absent, and you hear me from far away and my voice does not touch you " "All alone Whether you like it or not Alone will be something you'll be quite a lot" "The realest people don't have a lot of friends" "You do not need to leave your room Remain sitting at your table and listen Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked It has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet" "Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you"