Joseph Roux Quotes

Staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Be alone even when there's a million people around, because tomorrow it will be a different million people.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion; in order to serve others better, one has to hold them at a distance for a time. But where can one find the solitude necessary to vigor, the deep breath in which the mind collects itself and courage gauges its strength? There remain big cities.

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

I was never less alone than when by myself.

I feel calm when I'm on my own.

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

I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.

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

Running is the one part of my life in which I fundamentally feel like the observer instead of the observed.

Celebrities can suffer a horrible loneliness even though they have millions of fans. I started doing meditations because I realized that a spiritual path was necessary.

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.

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

In solitude, where we are least alone.

Then never less alone than when 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.