Mark Twain Quotes About Solitude

• The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

  Mark Twain

  Lonely, Self Esteem, Loneliness

• It is a time when one’s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death. It is a time when one is filled with vague longings; when one dreams of flight to peaceful islands in the remote solitudes of the sea, or folds his hands and says, What is the use of struggling, and toiling and worrying any more? let us give it all up.

  Mark Twain

  Dream, Struggle, Past

  Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.1257, GENERAL PRESS

• I have at last, after several months' experience, made up my mind that [New York] is a splendid desert--a domed and steepled solitude, where the stranger is lonely in the midst of a million of his race.

  Mark Twain

  Lonely, New York, Race

  Mark Twain, Milton Meltzer (2002). “Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography”, p.82, University of Missouri Press

• If you can't stand solitude, perhaps others find you boring as well.

  Mark Twain

  Solitude, Boring, Wells

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