Home » Quote » Vladimir Nabokov » „Solitude was corrupting me. I needed company and care.“ „Solitude was corrupting me. I needed company and care.“ — Vladimir Nabokov Tags:Solitude Related quotes „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 desolates me; company oppresses me.“ — Fernando Pessoa „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 „I hate who steals my solitude, without really offer me in exchange company.“ — Friedrich Nietzsche „This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!“ — William Wilberforce „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 „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 „To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.“ — Ralph Waldo Emerson „Never forget that solitude is my lot… I implore those who love me to love my solitude."(, May 11, 1910)“ — Rainer Maria Rilke „I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.“ — Franz Kafka
