Paulo Coelho Quotes

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

What I learned The well-documented difference Between alone and lonely The comfort of knowing

It is right that you have to have a tolerance for solitude. But when that solitude bears fruit, you can abandon it. You can be in the company of others.

I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so I made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.

I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was good company.

There she is, lying in front of me, smoking a cigarette, thinking of something or someone else. And that’s how she is stuck in my mind forever. We are two explorers in the dark. Mapless and hopeless. Alone together.

A crowd is not necessarily company, but neither need it necessarily prevent thought or disturb peace of mind.

Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and the only one who is searching for the Other.

It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.

Whenever I'm with other people, part of me shrinks a little. Only when I am alone can I fully enjoy my own company.

Being alone makes us stronger. That’s the honest truth. But it’s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.

He liked the loneliness of inner space, the sense of being forgotten by the world.

With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.

I feel better when I am not around people. When I am alone, alone, alone.

What remains is solitude.

I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone.

I had this wild thought that he was the only one in all this chaos who was just like me, and that was comforting and profound all at once.

A cat and a Bible, and nobody needs to be lonely.

Being alone can be good. It's easy to find peace alone. But sometimes, being alone is a king of death.

I am then never less alone than when alone

they simply never understand, do they, that sometimes solitude is one of the most beautiful things on earth?

I've come home in love with loneliness

Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky.