(232 quotes found)
“In solitude, where we are least alone.”
Lord Byron
“Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.”
Alice Koller
“Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.”
Dag Hammarskjold
“I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind me without the awareness that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself.”
Peter Hoeg
“To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.”
Anna Louise Strong
“Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.”
Honore de Balzac
“One can acquire everything in solitude - except character.”
Stendhal
“I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
Henry David Thoreau
“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.”
Paul Tillich
“Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid”
Karl Kraus
