Solitude Quotes

"Muddling up loneliness and companionship as usual" "Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning." "Command is lonely." "I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do" "We are all alone born alone die alone and in spite of True Romance magazines 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 must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness" "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."