Robert Anton Wilson Quotes

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

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

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

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

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

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

The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.

Ground yourself, strip yourself down, To blind loving Silence

I spend a lot of time alone and my wife understands that I need to be alone. I enjoy being alone. But I'm never lonely.

Solitude is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it.

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

Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing.

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

I am never less alone than when alone.

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

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.

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.

I live alone, so I don't really talk to anyone once I'm home. I have some silent nights.