Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.

“If I'm going to be working out here in a place that at least feels like the middle of nowhere, I'm going to need…

— Jeanne Marie Laskas

“Perhaps love is to give one’s own solitude to others? For it is the very last thing we have to offer. from "The Gift”

— Clarice Lispector

“Solitude is one thing and being alone is another. Solitude can be isolation, an escape, an unwanted thing; but to be alone without the…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Solitude is the only thing that will never help you make your character.

— Vikrant Parsai

Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not…

— Tom Hanks

“Aloneness is not always the same thing as loneliness.”

— Mary Balogh

“There is no such thing as loneliness. There is only the idea of loneliness.”

— M. Pierce

“My loneliness began to be filled with ghosts. That is the worst thing about loneliness, how easily it becomes filled.”

— Jeff VanderMeer

The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself.

— Mary Balogh

“there is no such thing as loneliness. There is only the idea of loneliness…what lines, and what a strange concept-that the fear of loneliness…

— M. Pierce

There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen.

— May Sarton

I simply adore being alone - I find it a consuming thirst - and when that thirst is slaked, then I am happy.

— May Sarton

“Solitude itself is a way of waiting for the inaudible and the invisible to make itself felt. And that is why solitude is never…

— May Sarton

There is no doubt that solitude is a challenge and to maintain balance within it a precarious business. But I must not forget that,…

— May Sarton

There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had…

— Toni Morrison