I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer.
Alone Quotes
Byron, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Emil Cioran, Edward Young and Wordsworth lead. Edward Gibbon’s Memoirs (1796) supplies the sentence that sums up the page: he was never less alone than when by himself. Shelley, in 1821, loves tranquil solitude and such society as is quiet, wise and good, and Pope’s Ode on Solitude wants a few paternal acres and the air of one’s own ground.
Three entries are flagged. “Solitude is the mother of anxieties,” credited to Publilius Syrus, is disputed. A passage about sitting and thinking in solitude to the music of the stream and the cedar, credited to John Muir, is marked misattributed, and the note points to a Sierra Club page on Muir misquotes. “Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine” is credited to Balzac and marked misattributed.
Those, whose time is fully occupied, seldom complain of solitude.
Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Le grand amour aime la solitude: il n'a pas besoin du reste du monde.
Consider well before you immerse yourself in solitude whether your own company will be good for you.
Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.
Solitude matters, and for some people it is the air that they breathe.
The great solitude of the individual is a hallmark of our times.
Writing is a desperate attempt to extract some dignity – and a modicum of money – from solitude.
Life is the desert, life the solitude;
Death joins us to the great majority.
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.