Vita Sackville-West Quotes

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

There's a difference between loneliness and solitude. You pursue solitude, I think. But loneliness is a completely different isolating thing.

Quiet time and solitude are vital to helping me keep perspective. I consider myself fortunate to have so much quiet built into my profession. I spend long hours by myself at my easel. And while I work, I think-of the future, of my loved ones, of God's goodness and the many exciting opportunities that surround me. I ponder the challenges I face, the needs of others, the direction my life is going.

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. 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.

Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone.

being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.

Love After Love all your life, whom you have ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.

I have not a desire but a need for solitude.

I spend a lot of time alone and my wife understands that I need to be alone. I enjoy being alone. But I'm never lonely.

Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves

Our age is so gregarious that there is at present a marked prejudice against anyone being alone. It is looked down on, and a need to be alone is almost considered a fault, a weakness, as though if one cannot endure - more - enjoy being with other people every minute one is aloof, unreal, and somehow to be pitied.

I love very much the night after every fashion show when I have all those invitations to parties and I stay quiet at home by myself.

I prize the privilege of being alone.

I am then never less alone than when alone

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

Solitude is creativity's best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

I love being by myself.

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.

I spend an awful lot of time by myself and enjoy that.

I felt like I could write about quiet, self-contained moments and also about those moments when the world rushes in again.

The teenager's room is her cave. It is here she can meet herself, undistracted by the new hassles life is making for her. Here, she can reflect.

I enjoy my time alone.

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