Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.Octavio Paz
Solitude Quotes
These 6 quotes on solitude come straight from the QuotePlace collection — lines by poets, philosophers, leaders and artists across the centuries. Open any card to read the quote on its own page and meet the author behind it.
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning.Louise Erdrich
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.Maya Angelou
The grass seeks her crowd in the earth. The tree seeks his solitude of the sky.Rabindranath Tagore
The life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.Thomas Hobbes
I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.Charlotte Brontë