Claude Bernard Quotes

You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.

How deeply one felt when alone.

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

I've certainly felt alone a lot of my life.

...by and by a change came: I started to muse about the shape of my nose. I put my trivial surroundings aside and mused more and more about myself, and I found this to be a bewitching occupation. I stopped asking and longed instead to speak of my thoughts and feelings. Alas, there was no one besides myself who found me interesting.

Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to split up into the two-in-one, without being able to keep myself company.

Usually there's no specific reason for loneliness - it's a broad feeling.

As small as a world as large as alone.

When I’m alone in my room sometimes I stare at the wall, and in the back of my mind I hear my conscience call.

I want to know what you're thinking, you want to know what I'm thinking. But we're alone. In our own minds. We're trapped in this sort of isolation.

Alone is a fact, a condition where no one else is around. Lonely is how you feel about that.

I eat my heart out alone.

Lonely people keep up a ceaseless flow of commentary on themselves.

I am often lost in my own world, with a frown on my face.

What good is sitting all alone in your room?

Oh, I do get lonely, yes.

I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

There's definitely a loneliness and, like, an internal element to being a performer.

I was alone more than most kids.

Yes, I do seek solitude, but I am never lonely.

My private life's quite sad.