I am a real lone wolf who has never wholeheartedly belonged to the State, to my country, my circle of friends and not even to my family but who, despite all these bonds, has constantly experienced a feeling of strangeness and the need for solitude.

Albert Einstein

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I exist in two places, here and where you are.

Margaret Atwood

Your relationship with yourself is a marriage from which there is no earthly escape. Death is the only divorce. A well-ordered mind is at home with solitude. A contented man can tolerate his own company.

The Stoic Emperor

Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

Patrick OShaughnessy

I need space from a world that is filled with millions of mouths that talk too much but never have anything to say.

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

There is some kind of sweet innocence in being human, in not having to be just happy or just sad, in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.

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