Charles Bukowski Quotes

Solitude does not pull us away from our fellow human beings but instead makes real fellowship possible.

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.

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

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.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

You can be much more alone with other people than you are by yourself. Even if it's people you love.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

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

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is.

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not 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.

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.

I have always been very interested in the idea of loneliness and the presumption that romantic relationships are supposed to rid you of that.

Marriage is the only thing that affords a woman the pleasure of company and the perfect sensation of solitude at the same time.

We are always in our own company.

We must relearn to be alone.

In solitude, where we are least alone.

Solitude matters. And for some people it's the air they breathe.

I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.

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.

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

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.