Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Quotes

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

Being alone is very difficult.

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It 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.

When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself.

Solitude is not the same as loneliness. Solitude is a solitary boat floating in a sea of possible companions.

I kind of crave loneliness.

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.

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

I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.

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.

When you are out in the land, OK, you have the land but you are alone with it. And sometimes it is too much.

I think that if I get into the habit of writing a bit about what happens, or rather doesn't happen, I may lose a little of the sense of isolation and desolation which abides with me. My circumstances allowing of nothing but the ejaculation of one-syllabled reflections, a written monologue by that most interesting being, myself, may have its yet to be discovered consolations.

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

What good is sitting all alone in your room?

I need, absolutely, to be alone.

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

I don't need anyone else, which is a great feeling, but also a depressing one.

I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.

There were moments when I really just thought, I don't need anything and I don't need anyone. I just want to go away and disappear.

I spend an awful lot of time by myself and enjoy that.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.