Solitude Quotations | Page 2

Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.

The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.

The individual who has experienced solitude will not easily become a victim of mass suggestion.

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.

Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.

There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value.

Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me to die alone, after having lived and killed alone.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

Some of my poems indicate that I am writing while living alone after a split with a woman, and I've had many splits with women. I need solitude more often when I'm not writing than when I am.

I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.