Loneliness & Solitude · alone with, alone without
Quotes about loneliness and solitude
Loneliness is being alone without. Solitude is being alone with.
One verified literary line a day. A private place to write what it brings up.
There is the loneliness that empties you and the solitude that fills you back up. The writers here knew both — in crowded rooms, in exile, at midnight, in the woods.
“In many another soul I broke the bread, And drank the wine and played the happy guest, But I was lonely, I remembered you”
This is one line. The rest of the Loneliness & Solitude thread is inside Saudade — one line a day, chosen by a person, with a private page to write what it brings up. Over the weeks, your pages become a book of your own.
Read tomorrow’s lineWriters in this thread
- Rainer Maria Rilke on solitude and loneliness
- Charles Lamb on loneliness and solitude
- Lord Byron on solitude and loneliness
- Mary Shelley on loneliness and solitude
- Po Chü-i on solitude and loneliness
- Matthew Arnold on loneliness
- Yoshida Kenkō on solitude
- Langston Hughes on loneliness
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge on solitude
- Joseph Conrad on solitude
- Georgia Douglas Johnson on loneliness
- Anne Spencer on loneliness and solitude
- Amelia Opie on loneliness
- Li Po on loneliness
- T'ao Ch'ien on solitude
- Charlotte Brontë on loneliness
- Charlotte Mew on loneliness
- Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea on solitude
- Mary, Lady Chudleigh on solitude
Their lines arrive one a day, inside the app.
For readers, writers and artists
For readers, poetry lovers, and anyone who keeps a short private writing habit. Every day’s line can be a prompt: writers can use it to find a place to begin, poets a first line, painters and illustrators a mood. Nobody reads your page but you.
Try this
Draw or write the hour you feel most alone, then the hour you feel most yourself.
Why these lines
Every line in Saudade is chosen by a person, quoted word for word from the original book, and carries its author, source and year. Nothing is generated, paraphrased or scraped. Never AI.
Most quote sites are full of lines nobody ever said. Ours you can look up.