"The world and the friends that lived in it are shadows: you alone remain real in this drowsing room."

Solitude, Reality, Dream, Friendship

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"The world and the friends that lived in it are shadows: you alone remain real in this drowsing room."

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"It was as if this night were only one of thousands of nights, world without end, night curving into night to make a great arching line of which I couldn't see the end, a night in which I roamed alone under cold, mindless stars."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

Solitude, Night, Alone, Stars, Isolation

"This was not my moment to be seeking romance and (as day follows night) to further complicate my already knotty life. This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude."

Elizabeth Gilbert, American Novelist

Solitude, Peace, Healing, Self

"A wounded heart needs aloof."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Solitude, Healing, Truth, Power, Today

"I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative."

David Levithan, American Author

Solitude, Loneliness, Acceptance, Desire, Alone

"Everything hurt. I closed my eyes, pressing my cheek to the street, and waited. What for, I didn't know. To be rescued. Or found. But no one came. All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was."

Sarah Dessen, American Author

Solitude, Pain, Isolation, Waiting, Desire

"The time of solitude is actually an opportunity to make time work for you."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Solitude, Time, Opportunity, Value

"Solitude is a greater treasure than money."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Solitude, Treasure, Value, InnerPeace

"In solitude, you listen to the sacred voice."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Solitude, Listening, Voice, Sacred

"Alone! yesterday, today and forever."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

Solitude, Loneliness, Isolation, Emotion

"I am but a stranger ... as we all are. Lonely inside our separate skins, we cannot know each others pain and must bear our own in solitude. For my part, I have found that walking soothes it; and that, given luck, sometimes we find one to walk besides us ... at least for a little way."

Alan Moore, British Writer

Solitude, Loneliness, Companionship, Pain

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"A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it."

Freedom

"The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency."

Life

"Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work."

Work

"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."

History

"Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them."

Time

"Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation."

Man

"Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning."

Life

"Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors."

Truth

"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude."

Religion

"You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear."

Love