"I have been one acquainted with the night.I have walked out in rain - and back in rain.I have outwalked the furthest city light.I have looked down the saddest city lane.I have passed by the watchman on his beatAnd dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain."

Solitude, Night, Walking, Isolation, Emotion

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"I have been one acquainted with the night.I have walked out in rain - and back in rain.I have outwalked the furthest city light.I have looked down the saddest city lane.I have passed by the watchman on his beatAnd dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain."

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"It was a different sense of isolation from what he normally felt in Japan. And not such a bad feeling, he decided. Being alone in two senses of the word was maybe like a double negation of isolation. In other words, it made perfect sense for him, a foreigner, to feel isolated here. The thought calmed him. He was in exactly the right place."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"People are always relying on another, i always feel more comfortable alone. Art knows my pain, its not just a desire to paint, a hobby to distract me from living my truth, it is my truth."

Nikki Rowe, American Writer

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"At first the solitudecharmed me like a prelude,but so much music wounded me."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

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"Being alone will show you who you really are, and if you cannot get-on positively as the sole master of your space in that room alone, then you can absolutely forget about it after you add another person."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Solitude, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Happiness

"Loneliness chosen is always preferable to loneliness imposed."

bell hooks, American Critic

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"Though solitude, endured too long, Bids youthful joys too soon decay, Makes mirth a stranger to my tongue, And overclouds my noon of day;When kindly thoughts that would have way, Flow back discouraged to my breast;I know there is, though far away, A home where heart and soul may rest.Warm hands are there, that, clasped in mine, The warmer heart will not belie;While mirth, and truth, and friendship shineIn smiling lip and earnest eye.The ice that gathers round my heartMay there be thawed; and sweetly, then, The joys of youth, that now depart, Will come to cheer my soul again."

Anne Bronte, British Novelist

Solitude, Longing, Memory, Home

"I need solitude for my writing, not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man."

Franz Kafka, Austrian Novelist

Solitude, Writing, Isolation, Death

"I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting."

Susan Sontag, American Author

Solitude, Self, Peace, Silence

"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

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