Quoting Solitude

“My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.”
― Patricia Highsmith

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

 “Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet 

“I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel."

(Audrey Hepburn: Many-Sided Charmer, LIFE Magazine, December 7, 1953)”
― Audrey Hepburn 

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more”
― George Gordon Byron 

“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
― Aldous Huxley 

“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  

“I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer