“The truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others.”

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Polish-British writer 1857–1924

Michael Nava (1954) American writer

Source: Henry Rios series of novels, How Town (1990), p.198

“It was evident that he revived by fits and starts. He would suddenly come to himself from actual delirium for a few minutes; he would remember and talk with complete consciousness, chiefly in disconnected phrases which he had perhaps thought out and learnt by heart in the long weary hours of his illness, in his bed, in sleepless solitude.”

Fyodor Dostoyevsky book The Idiot

The Idiot (1868–9)

“To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.”

Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright

No. 4 (5 March 1711).
The Spectator (1711–1714)

“He died alone and forgotten and only in modern times has he come up as a genius composer and a brilliant visionary.”

Marion Bauer (1882–1955) American composer

Harry Shaw Simpson. (2014). Music Today, p.300. Geni Book Publishing Experts. ISBN 0452616764030.

“In truth, there was only one christian and he died on the cross.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“We've known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it.”

Susan Cain (1968) self-help writer

"Introverts run the world -- quietly," CNN.com, March 18, 2012.

“Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Solitude, quality solitude, is an assertion of self-worth, because only in the stillness can we hear the truth of our own unique voices.”

Pearl Cleage (1948) American novelist

Source: Deals with the Devil, and Other Reasons to Riot

“This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

“The world steals us from ourselves and solitude restores us. The world is composed of a herd, which are ever flying from themselves.”

Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert (1647–1733) writer from France

Source: An Essay on Old Age, 1732, p. 136

“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher

Source: Essays and Aphorisms

“The truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others.”

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