„But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing.“

— Virginia Woolf

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„O Solitude! You are my home, Solitude!“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.“
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
„I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it.“
— Charles Bukowski
„My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„Never forget that solitude is my lot… I implore those who love me to love my solitude."(, May 11, 1910)“
— Rainer Maria Rilke
„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
„Nothing can be accomplished without solitude; I have made a kind of solitude for myself.“
— Pablo Picasso
„There is a solitude of space, A solitude of sea, A solitude of death, but theseSociety shall be,Compared with that profounder site,That polar privacy,A Soul admitted to Itself:Finite Infinity.“
— Emily Dickinson