Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.
Paulo CoelhoI have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.
Kahlil GibranForget sex, or politics, or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.
Doug CouplandAs you simplify your life the laws of the universe will be simpler, solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
Henry David ThoreauThe more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
Aldous HuxleySolitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
James Russell LowellIn Genesis it says that it is not good for a man to be alone, but sometimes it is a great relief.
John BarrymoreWomen need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
Barbara de AngelisI love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Henry David Thoreau