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"Let me tell yous this: if you see a loner, no matter what they tell y'all, it'south non because they bask solitude. It'due south because they accept tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them."
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

"I care for myself. The more than solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself."
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

"If you lot're lonely when yous're lone, you're in bad company."
― Jean-Paul Sartre

"Solitude is fine but you demand someone to tell that solitude is fine."
― Honoré de Balzac

"My imagination functions much better when I don't take to speak to people."
― Patricia Highsmith

"I had already found that information technology was not good to be alone, and then made companionship with what there was effectually me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, allow neglect all else."
― Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the Globe

"existence alone never felt right. sometimes it felt skilful, merely it never felt right."
― Charles Bukowski, Women

"Fourth dimension was passing like a hand waving from a railroad train I wanted to be on.
I hope yous never have to call back about anything equally much as I think about you."
― jonathan safran foer

"Therefore, love Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you lot. For those who are nearly you are far away... and this shows that the space around you is commencement to grow vast.... be happy about your growth, in which of class you tin can't accept anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind; be confident and calm in forepart of them and don't torment them with your doubts and don't frighten them with your organized religion or joy, which they wouldn't be able to comprehend. Seek out some unproblematic and true feeling of what you accept in common with them, which doesn't necessarily accept to alter when you yourself change again and once again; when you encounter them, love life in a grade that is not your ain and be indulgent toward those who are growing old, who are afraid of the aloneness that y'all trust.... and don't await whatsoever understanding; but believe in a beloved that is being stored up for yous similar an inheritance, and have organized religion that in this love there is a forcefulness and a blessing so big that y'all can travel equally far equally you wish without having to step exterior it."
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

"There is a pleasure in the pathless forest,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
At that place is club, where none intrudes,
Past the deep ocean, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more"
― Lord Byron

"I notice it wholesome to exist lonely the greater part of the time. To be in visitor, fifty-fifty with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to exist lonely. I never found the companion that was and so companionable every bit solitude."
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of confinement."
― Aldous Huxley

"I accept to be solitary very often. I'd exist quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Mon morning alone in my apartment. That'due south how I refuel."

(Audrey Hepburn: Many-Sided Charmer, LIFE Mag, Dec 7, 1953)"
― Audrey Hepburn

"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love confinement, he will not love freedom; for information technology is only when he is alone that he is really free."
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

"I desire to be with those who know secret things or else alone."
― Rainer Maria Rilke

"Solitude gives birth to the original in the states, to dazzler unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd."
― Thomas Isle of man, Death in Venice and Other Tales

"From that fourth dimension on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and in that location was one for every mood. There was poetry for tranquility companionship. There was gamble when she tired of quiet hours. There would exist dearest stories when she came into adolescence and when she wanted to feel a closeness to someone she could read a biography. On that day when she first knew she could read, she made a vow to read one book a day as long as she lived."
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself."
― Michel de Montaigne, The Consummate Essays

"I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I demand the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, confront to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company."
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

"There is a wilderness nosotros walk alone
Nonetheless well-companioned"
― Stephen Vincent Benét, Western Star

"Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you accept never been. Slumber out alone nether the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far abroad that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no when you don't desire to practise something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, fifty-fifty if everyone around you disagrees. Determine whether you lot desire to be liked or admired. Decide if fitting in is more important than finding out what you're doing here. Believe in kissing."
― Eve Ensler

"We must get and so alone, and then utterly lone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. Information technology is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we detect that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed past its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being."
― Hermann Hesse

"I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion."
― Henry David Thoreau

"How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit down by myself like the alone sea-bird that opens its wings on the pale. Let me sit down hither for ever with blank things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself existence myself."
― Virginia Woolf, The Waves

"Orlando naturally loved lone places, vast views, and to experience himself for always and ever and ever alone."
― Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"Sometimes I get so immersed in my own visitor, if I unexpectedly meet someone I know, it's a flake of a shock and takes me a while to adjust."
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

"I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was similar another man without nutrient or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; simply I was dependent on information technology. The darkness of the
room was like sunlight to me."
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

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