Loneliness:Solitude

La solitude est une belle chose; mais il faut quelqu'un pour vous dire que la solitude est une belle chose.

- Balzac

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

- Aldous Huxley

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

- Aristotle

La solitude est une drogue, o˘ nos sens sens nous piquent et o˘ notre conscience nous l'injecte.

- GaÎtan Bourgeat

I've never found a companion as companionable as solitude.

- Henry David Thoreau

I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls.

- Henry David Thoreau, "Walden" ( ? )

You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning... a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.

- Joseph Campbell

In solitude, where we are least alone

- Lord Byron

Our language has widely 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.

- Paul Tillich

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