Richard Jefferies Quotes

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to split up into the two-in-one, without being able to keep myself company.

Eventually, we all end up alone.

Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

What good is sitting all alone in your room?

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.

We enter the world alone, we leave the world alone.

Census figures be damned: If you choose to be alone, you're destined to spend a certain amount of time wondering why.

Sometimes I get lonely, but it's nice to be alone.

Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.

We are all born alone and die alone. The loneliness is definitely part of the journey of life.

I like to write about the solitary things people do. Humans seem to function best when they're alone.

All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!

Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.

But inside or out, I was alone, and I was beginning to wonder if I always had been, if I always would be.

The more man realises his humanity, the lonelier he feels.

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and - in spite of True Romance magazines - we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way.

We live as we dream - alone.

Solitude is separate experience.

I spent most of my time in my room staring at a mirror. I never knew I was supposed to socialize. I just spent hours making faces at myself, having a good time.

Me, myself and I. That's all I got in the end.