Carl Jung Quotes

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.

I make a genuine distinction between loneliness and aloneness. I know what each is like. There are times I'm lonely. But there are also many times when I need to be alone, when I don't want the feeling of someone else in the house other than the cats.

Even though I get a lot done with my solitude, and I make the best use of it possible, I always think solitude is an interlude in a period of time, which is populated by others.

I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

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

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

Often, marriage was solitude, with company.

To a shameful extent, the charm of marriage boils down to how unpleasant it is to be alone.

One of the odd enjoyments in life is to be alone in a room full of people. To have them there as unknowing human filler in your wide shot.

Total intimacy is a myth; that said, a particular kind of loneliness can be both beautiful and fruitful.

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

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 loneliness and solitude. You pursue solitude, I think. But loneliness is a completely different isolating thing.

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.

Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.

She's alone, they kept telling themselves, and surely she danced in no one's arms, yet somehow that seemed to matter less and less. As the night went on, and clarinet and coyote call mingled beyond the lantern light, the magic of their own powder-blue jackets and orchids seemed to fade, and it came to them in small sensations that they were more alone than she was.

Their leaving made me melancholy, though I also felt something like relief when they disappeared into the dark trees. I hadn't needed to get anything from my pack; I'd only wanted to be alone. Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren't a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.

I have not a desire but a need for solitude.

Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood.

Solitude is separate experience.

I simply adore being alone - I find it a consuming thirst - and when that thirst is slaked, then I am happy.