Quotes about Solitude

He who hath many friends hath none.

My friends, there are no friends.

I'm perpetually lonely.

Anyone would be lying if they said they didn't get lonely at times.

The words alone, lonely, and loneliness are three of the most powerful words in the English language...those words say that we are human; they are like the words hunger and thirst. But they are not words about the body, they are words about the soul.

When a person has no other persons he invents them because he was not designed to be alone, because it isn't good for a person to be alone.

Perhaps; but I am a difficult person to live with. My difficulty consists in not wanting to live with other people.

Isn't it interesting that Jesus seemed to speak most intimately to people who were lonely?

In the quiet, we feel safe enough to humble ourselves.

And to 'scape stormy days, I choose an everlasting night.

Sometimes the idea of living as a hermit appeals to all of us. No demands, no needs, no pain, no disappointments. But that is because we have been hurt, are worn out.

Sartre felt that Hell is other people, but precisely the opposite is true. Hell is being left alone forever with no other reality than your own consciousness of yourself. It is being locked in a casket of your own internal chaos with no hope of a window, or door leading in light from outside to give you a moment's respite from yourself. Hell is the refusal of the gift of the other.