Humans are all too happy to keep company until the company turns out to be less appealing than solitude.

Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.

I was doing well enough until you came along and kicked my stone over, and out I came, all moss and eyes.

To you, whoever you are, when I am gone — remember to be kind tonight to some lonely person. For me.

Y estaba sola, me sentía sola, incapaz de hablar, que es quizás la peor forma de la soledad.

Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone.

Some people are so boring that you are more bored when you are with them … than when you are alone.

Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.

I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.

To love can mean 'to love oneself,' and often love is no more than a juxtaposition of two solitudes.

He had escaped the abhorrent taint! He was truly completely alone! He was the only human being in the world!

He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.

I think I’m learningthat sometimes the bravest thing is not to face the world,but to turn away from it.

I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything.

...solitude is not to be recommended to everyone, for you have to be strong in order to bear it and act alone.