Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
Albert EinsteinI don’t go to parties in general.
Paulo CoelhoIt is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
George WashingtonI don’t have many friends; I’m very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated, and I’ve never been really close to anyone.
Anthony HopkinsI was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.
Stephen KingAh, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
Albert CamusGod is absence. God is the solitude of man.
Jean-Paul SartreLife could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
Charlie ChaplinThe best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
Anne FrankDon’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.
Paul AusterIt is better to be alone than in bad company.
George WashingtonSolitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
Winston ChurchillI’ve been called a recluse. There’s definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone.
Kendrick LamarI am a bit of a solitude person – a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don’t have any major friendships or relationships with people.
Anthony HopkinsAs you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
Henry David ThoreauI was very depressed when I was 19… I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.
Lady GagaI would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Henry David ThoreauI love to be alone, and I did as a child as well, especially if I was outside.
AuroraBeing prime minister is a lonely job… you cannot lead from the crowd.
Margaret ThatcherA creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
Lao TzuA man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
Arthur SchopenhauerWhosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Francis BaconWith fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.
BuddhaI restore myself when I’m alone.
Marilyn MonroeI’m a very private person. I don’t go out much. I’m home with kids. I go to work. I don’t really like being the focus of attention, which is why I like being behind the camera more.
Angelina JolieA man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.
ChanakyaIt is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.
Franz KafkaHermits have no peer pressure.
Steven WrightThe ideal girl is driven, working on something other than modeling or being a singer.
DrakeI have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.
Henry David ThoreauNo one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiI’m an old man, and all my life I’ve said that Notre Dame should remain independent because it’s a national school.
Lou HoltzBut I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.
Alan WattsI’m an introvert… I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.
Audrey HepburnThe more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
Aldous HuxleyOne can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Albert EinsteinCycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away from what you’re working on.
David ByrneWhen I was growing up, I wasn’t an extrovert. If anything, I was an introverted kid and a very average pupil at school. I was very quiet.
Clint EastwoodThe time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
EpicurusI’m not a person that socializes very well.
Paulo CoelhoI am rather inclined to silence.
Abraham LincolnI’m not a natural joiner.
J. K. RowlingI never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play.
Kurt CobainSome of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I’d sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn’t miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.
Marilyn MonroeI’m not comfortable being around too many people. I don’t like being out in public too much. I don’t like going to bars. I don’t like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don’t always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends.
Adam SandlerI don’t really like talking. I like to execute. I’m not a talking person. I’m an action person.
Kevin GatesI have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.
Audrey HepburnPoland should be strong and prosperous and independent and play its proper role as a great nation in the heart of Europe.
George H. W. BushIf a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.
Benjamin DisraeliTake a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
John MuirI learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.
Angelina JolieYou 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.
Franz KafkaMany people would be surprised that, in fact, I’m quite shy.
Desmond TutuMostly I stay at home from the morning until 5 P.M., and I only go out for fittings and shoots because I work at home. I like to be alone.
Karl LagerfeldI tend to stay up late, not because I’m partying but because it’s the only time of the day when I’m alone and don’t have to be performing.
Jim CarreyI’m attracted to women who are smart and funny and ambitious and have lives of their own and great families. Isn’t that what attracts anyone?
Tom BradySometimes I think we’re alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we’re not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.
Arthur C. ClarkeI have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man’s being unable to sit still in a room.
Blaise Pascal