Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

You may never be less alone than when you are alone.

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

One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

People think being alone is a luxury, but it's crucial: Whatever you're not down with about yourself gets loud and in your face.

There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even in loneliness. At least you belonged to yourself when you were lonely.

We must relearn to be alone.

In solitude, where we are least alone.

It is a difficult lesson to learn today-to leave one's friends and family and deliberately practice the art of solitude for an hour or a day or a week. And yet, once it is done, I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid, fuller than before.

Solitude. One knows instinctively it has benefits that must be more deeply satisfying than those of other conditions, but still it is difficult.

And I somehow always felt less lonely when I was completely alone.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

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

I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone.

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

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.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

I do say all I've ever written about is being alone. And most people take that as, 'Oh, that's so sad.' And I always say, 'No. No, all I ever write about is being alone, and sometimes that's a beautiful, beautiful thing.'

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.

Then never less alone than when alone.

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

I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.