„I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.“

— Jean Paul Sartre

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„Nothing can be accomplished without solitude; I have made a kind of solitude for myself.“
— Pablo Picasso
„Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.“
— Rainer Maria Rilke
„Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude.“
— Emil M. Cioran
„True happiness is impossible without solitude…. I need solitude in my life as I need food and drink and the laughter of little children. Extravagant though it may sound, solitude is the filter of my soul. It nourishes me, and rejuvenates me. Left alone, I discovered that I keep myself good company.“
— Sophia Loren
„…. solitude is, more or less, an inevitable consequence.“
— Haruki Murakami
„But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing.“
— Virginia Woolf