Loneliness and solitude Quote by Jean de la Bruyere

How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.

— William Cowper

O thrush, your song is passing sweet, But never a song that you have sung Is half so sweet as thrushes sang When my…

— William Morris

Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is.

— William Jay

Loneliness is equal to the radius of one's awareness.

— Yoko Ono

“...Bhutan all but bases its identity upon its loneliness, and its refusal to b assimilated into India, or Tibet, or Nepal. Vietnam, at present,…

— Pico Iyer

In the temple of his spirit, each man is alone.

— Ayn Rand

The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but…

— Marya Mannes

“There's a difference between loneliness and solitude.”

— Jennifer E. Smith

People often expect the other person to respond first in a positive way, instead of taking the initiative to create that possibility. I feel…

— Dalai Lama

In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.

— George Herbert

By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.

— George Herbert

If you aren't constantly astonished at God's grace in your solitude, there's no way it can happen in public.

— Timothy Keller