"His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time he grew tired and restless ..."

Solitude, Reading, Isolation, Needs, Habit

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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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"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."

"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."

"A wounded heart needs aloof."

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

"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."

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

"Solitude is a greater treasure than money."

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

"Alone! yesterday, today and forever."

"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."

Explore more quotes by W. Somerset Maugham

"The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency."

"Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction."

"At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely."

"It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise."

"Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too."

"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."

"The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress."

"Tradition is a guide and not a jailer."

"The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes."

"It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer."