Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.Rainer Maria Rilke
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.Arthur Schopenhauer
Solitude is for me a source of healing that makes my life worth living. Speaking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.Carl Jung
I don't feel particularly proud of myself. But when I walk alone in the woods or lie in the meadows, all is well.Franz Kafka
I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.Jack Kerouac
Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way.Vincent van Gogh
Most people suffer from the fear of finding themselves alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.Rollo May
There’s something wonderful about drinking in the afternoon. A not-too-cold pint, absolutely alone at the bar – even in this fake-a*s Irish pub.Anthony Bourdain
The lonelier the place, the better it pleased me: its silence, its aura, its peculiar conformation, its enclosedness.John Fowles
The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything.Vivienne Westwood
I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.Jean-Michel Basquiat
It doesn't matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.Louis C.K.
My favorite hobby is being alone. I like to be alone. I also like dancing, fishing, playing poker sometimes and vegetable gardening - corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, I have a big garden every year.Emanuel Steward
I've always loved the woods, and I've always loved gardening and a lot of solitude and quiet.Lizz Wright
It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.James Douglas
It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.Jodie Foster
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.Khalil Gibran
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.Henry David Thoreau
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.Henry David Thoreau
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.Henry David Thoreau
You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.Ernest Hemingway
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.Oscar Wilde