Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.
Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.
The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone-that is the secret of invention: be alone, that is when ideas are born.
The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.
Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.
Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.
I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.
being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again.
When I'm bored, I hate being alone so there's always a friend at my place.
Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.
To be alone is to be free, and freedom was the only happiness accessible to my nature.
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.
I only said, 'I want to be left alone.'
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
As I get older I'm more and more comfortable being alone.
Being alone on the moors is scary; as the rain clouds settle in, it makes you realise your place in nature.
I remember my first day at grammar school, being the only person who was me. Everybody else was like everybody else, and there I was, tanned, in a freezing cold playground in the middle of Middlesbrough, wondering what on earth I was doing there.
I fear we might be losing the basic human facility to be alone - and with that you throw out independent decision-making, what to trust, what not to trust; key stuff - a perilous loss.
The single woman is a free woman, and being single does not mean being alone - it means being free to have a relationship or not. This can be scary, but it's also very interesting.
Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert.
There's nothing wrong with being single and not getting married and being, you know, just an old single lady. Who cares?
I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court. Being alone in the dark is something I don't like.
