Gretchen Rubin Quotes

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

What good is sitting all alone in your room?

If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in poor company.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

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.

Even if you're independent, I think you get lonely.

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

Isolation offered its own form of companionship

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

Being alone is very difficult.

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.

A man by himself is in bad company.

I don't like being alone.

Friends and relatives might be surprised that I think of myself as lonely. I'm married to a man I not only love but like, and we spend a lot of time together. If I feel like socializing, I can usually find someone to meet for coffee or a drink.

I can go days without meaningful human interaction.

Census figures be damned: If you choose to be alone, you're destined to spend a certain amount of time wondering why.

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

I have many good friends, but I tend to keep to myself anyway. It's odd, doing things and having no one to share them with.

It's no fun being lonely.

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

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