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.
Henry David ThoreauTags: solitude privacy companions company
I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Henry David ThoreauI live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Albert EinsteinTags: solitude growing-older
He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.
Patrick SüskindYou cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
Wayne W. DyerTags: solitude self-worth lonliness
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
Thomas MannTags: solitude
For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others... and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures.
Virginia WoolfA man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.
Axel MuntheReading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Harold BloomTags: words reading books solitude literature
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
May SartonTags: contentment solitude loneliness
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