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  • #1
    Charles Bukowski
    “being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.”
    Charles Bukowski, Women

  • #2
    Lord Byron
    “There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
    There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
    There is society, where none intrudes,
    By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
    I love not man the less, but Nature more”
    Lord Byron

  • #3
    Honoré de Balzac
    “Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
    Honoré de Balzac

  • #4
    Albert Einstein
    “I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #5
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    “A 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 Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

  • #6
    Aristotle
    “Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.”
    Aristotle

  • #7
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

  • #8
    May Sarton
    “Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.”
    May Sarton

  • #9
    Greta Garbo
    “I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said 'I want to be let alone!' There is all the difference.”
    Greta Garbo, Garbo

  • #10
    Thomas Mann
    “Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.”
    Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales

  • #11
    Guy de Maupassant
    “Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms”
    Guy de Maupassant, Le Horla et autres contes fantastiques

  • #12
    Henrik Ibsen
    “You see, the point is that the strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.”
    Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the People

  • #13
    Rudyard Kipling
    “I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.”
    Rudyard Kipling, The Cat That Walked by Himself: And Other Stories

  • #14
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants to move out of it.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

  • #15
    Antonio Porchia
    “When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.”
    Antonio Porchia, Voices

  • #16
    Henri J.M. Nouwen
    “In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us.”
    Henri J.M. Nouwen

  • #17
    Marcus Aurelius
    “For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

  • #18
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “Never forget that solitude is my lot ... I implore those who love me to love my solitude."

    (Letter to Mimi Romanelli, May 11, 1910)”
    Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke, a Soul History: In the Image of Orpheus

  • #19
    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    Elbert Hubbard

  • #20
    Bob Marley
    “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
    Bob Marley

  • #21
    Jess C. Scott
    “When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”
    Jess C. Scott, The Intern

  • #22
    Helen Keller
    “I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.”
    Helen Keller

  • #23
    Aristotle
    “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.”
    Aristotle

  • #24
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    “Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.”
    Amos Bronson Alcott, Concord Days

  • #25
    George Herbert
    “The best mirror is an old friend.”
    George Herbert

  • #26
    Oscar Wilde
    “Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #27
    William Shakespeare
    “Words are easy, like the wind; faithful friends are hard to find.”
    William Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim

  • #28
    Ray Bradbury
    “Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?"
    "Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.”
    Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

  • #29
    Dale Carnegie
    “You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”
    Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

  • #30
    Alice Walker
    “No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
    Alice Walker



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