Blaise Pascal Quotes

I feel calm when I'm on my own.

You may not enjoy loneliness, because loneliness is sad. But solitude is something else; solitude is what you look forward to when you want to be alone, when you want to be with yourself. So, solitude is something we all need from time to time.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness.

A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive.

Solitude helps you reflect.

We must relearn to be alone.

In solitude, where we are least alone.

One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words.

Staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

If you travel too often, you actually come face-to-face with what you're trying to escape. I feel like when I travel alone, sometimes it's like being locked in a hotel room with my own worst enemy.

It's important to have quiet time and isolation.

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

Being alone & actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.

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

Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

I personally think that's incredibly therapeutic to just be alone in your own thoughts and not be freaking out.

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.