"A lonely soul is the best friend of itself"
- Munia Khan
"I am not poor, I am not rich; nihil est, nihil deest, I have little, I want nothing: all my treasure is in Minerva’s tower...I live still a collegiate student...and lead a monastic life, ipse mihi the..."
- Robert Burton
"Some people think the real them is whoever they are when they're not around other people."
- Garth Risk Hallberg
"Don’t be afraid of being alone; remember, when the sun rises, it rises with nobody at its side."
- Matshona Dhliwayo
"As change is a constant – as our houses, our money, our friends, our things and even our lovers can always disappear - the one thing that we will always remain the closest to, will be our minds and ou..."
- lauren klarfeld
"It did not occur to me that absence of human companionship does not assure solitude. It may, on the contrary, plunge one into an environment compared with which New York or London would appear deserts..."
- Julian Hawthorne
"Consciousness is a born hermit."
- George Santayana
"You are alone,So alone,You speak back to silence.People call it loneliness,You call it solitude,Different words,Meaning the same pain."
- Jenim Dibie
". . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the a..."
- Charles Dickens
"Live alone if staying together seems lifeless"