Quotes

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34 quotes — from Indian and world voices, in English, Hindi and Urdu — while our publisher catalog grows.

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My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

— Patricia Highsmith
Art & Beauty Solitude

being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.

— Charles Bukowski
Solitude

Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

— John Steinbeck
Nature & World Solitude

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

— Fernando Pessoa
Books & Writing Solitude

All great and precious things are lonely.

— John Steinbeck
Solitude

I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.

— Charlotte Brontë
Self & Identity Freedom Solitude

Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.

— Honoré de Balzac
Solitude

If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.

— Jean-Paul Sartre
Solitude

All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.

— Tahereh Mafi
Love Kindness Solitude

Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?

— Haruki Murakami
Sadness & Pain Solitude

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.

— Lois Lowry
Sadness & Pain Solitude

Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.

— Haruki Murakami
Life Friendship Solitude

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

— Maya Angelou
Art & Beauty Solitude

I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. If you need the medication again, go ahead and take it—I will love you through that, as well. If you don’t need the medication, I will love you, too. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.

— Elizabeth Gilbert
Solitude

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

— Arthur C. Clarke
Life Solitude

World quotes adapted from the Abirate/english_quotes dataset (CC BY 4.0). Indian-figure and Hindi/Urdu quotes are a curated compilation of widely-attributed public sayings.