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  • #1
    Terry Pratchett
    “If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.”
    Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

  • #2
    Vincent van Gogh
    “Close friends are truly life's treasures. Sometimes they know us better than we know ourselves. With gentle honesty, they are there to guide and support us, to share our laughter and our tears. Their presence reminds us that we are never really alone.”
    Vincent van Gogh

  • #3
    Dolly Alderton
    “Because I am enough. My heart is enough. The stories and the sentences twisting around my mind are enough. I am fizzing and frothing and buzzing and exploding. I'm bubbling over and burning up. My early-morning walks and my late-night baths are enough. My loud laugh at the pub is enough. My piercing whistle, my singing in the shower, my double-jointed toes are enough. I am a just-pulled pint with a good, frothy heard on it. I am my own universe; a galaxy; a solar system. I am the warm-up act, the main event, and the backing singers. And if this is it, if this is all there is- just me and the trees and the sky and the seas- I know now that that's enough.”
    Dolly Alderton

  • #4
    Dolly Alderton
    “Because I am enough. My heart is enough. The stories and the sentences twisting around my mind are enough. I am fizzing and frothing and buzzing and exploding. I’m bubbling over and burning up. My early-morning walks and my late-night baths are enough. My loud laugh at the pub is enough. My piercing whistle, my singing in the shower, my double-jointed toes are enough. I am a just-pulled pint with a good, frothy head on it. I am my own universe; a galaxy; a solar system. I am the warm-up act, the main event, and the backing singers. And if this is it, if this is all there is—just me and the trees and the sky and the seas—I know now that that’s enough.”
    Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

  • #5
    Rupi Kaur
    “fall
    in love
    with your solitude”
    Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

  • #6
    Anthony Burgess
    “To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.”
    Anthony Burgess, Homage to QWERT YUIOP: Essays

  • #7
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #8
    Albert Camus
    “Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery smoothly transferring you into another world. It doesn’t have to be a walk during which you’ll have multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings no other brain ever managed to encounter. Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but 'steal' some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.”
    Albert Camus, Notebooks 1951-1959

  • #9
    Aristotle
    “Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.”
    Aristotle

  • #10
    Henry David Thoreau
    “I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
    Henry David Thoreau

  • #11
    V (formerly Eve Ensler)
    “Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no when you don’t want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if everyone around you disagrees. Decide whether you want 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

  • #12
    Michel de Montaigne
    “The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
    Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

  • #13
    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

  • #14
    Henry David Thoreau
    “I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

  • #15
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    “If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
    Jean-Paul Sartre

  • #16
    Jean Rhys
    “Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.”
    Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight

  • #17
    Charles Bukowski
    “some moments are nice, some are
    nicer, some are even worth
    writing
    about.”
    Charles Bukowski, War All the Time: Poems 1981 - 1984

  • #18
    Charles Bukowski
    “if you get married they think you're
    finished
    and if you are without a woman they think you're
    incomplete.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #19
    Charles Bukowski
    “If I never see you again
    I will always carry you
    inside
    outside

    on my fingertips
    and at brain edges

    and in centers
    centers
    of what I am of
    what remains.”
    Charles Bukowski, Living on Luck

  • #20
    Charles Bukowski
    “It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #21
    Charles Bukowski
    “nobody can save you but
    yourself.
    you will be put again and again
    into nearly impossible
    situations.
    they will attempt again and again
    through subterfuge, guise and
    force
    to make you submit, quit and/or die quietly
    inside.

    nobody can save you but
    yourself
    and it will be easy enough to fail
    so very easily
    but don’t, don’t, don’t.
    just watch them.
    listen to them.
    do you want to be like that?
    a faceless, mindless, heartless
    being?
    do you want to experience
    death before death?

    nobody can save you but
    yourself
    and you’re worth saving.
    it’s a war not easily won
    but if anything is worth winning then
    this is it.

    think about it.
    think about saving your self.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #22
    Charles Bukowski
    “Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something turns in them. They can watch you dying in a gutter, run over by a car, and they'll spit on you.”
    Charles Bukowski, Women

  • #23
    Charles Bukowski
    “Hey baby, when I write, I'm the hero of my shit.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #24
    Charles Bukowski
    “I want to be with you. It's as simple, and as complicated as that.”
    Charles Bukowski

  • #25
    Charles Bukowski
    “a good book
    can make an almost
    impossible
    existence,
    liveable

    ( from 'the luck of the word' )”
    Charles Bukowski, Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories

  • #26
    Charles Bukowski
    “and even the trees we walked
    under
    seemed
    less than
    trees
    and more like everything
    else.”
    Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

  • #27
    Charles Bukowski
    “they simply never understand,
    do they,
    that sometimes solitude
    is
    one of the most beautiful
    things
    on earth?”
    Charles Bukowski



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