Quotes About Solitude

I want to be left alone.

— Greta Garbo (attrib.)

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

— Cyril Connolly

God created man, and finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more.

— Paul Valéry

City life: millions of people being lonesome together.

— Henry David Thoreau

Be good and you will be lonesome.

— Mark Twain

Hell is other people.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone.

— Henrik Ibsen

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast of a god.

— Francis Bacon

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

— Albert Einstein