Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
The life of a solitary man will be certainly miserable, but not certainly devout.
And yet my life seemed to be just one big mass of people. I would never ask some people in for tea to fill up time. I just never would do it. Whenever I seemed to have a quiet hole, I would paint. That was what I would choose to do to fill up the time.
Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.
Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.
Solitude is the playfield of Satan.
You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.
Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.
It seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude.
One's better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one's own. In fact it's a terrible business and the task is a hard one.
If you're alone with nothing to do, the quality of your experience really plummets.
Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place.
I love and in a way need, a private secret place. It's a kind of deep obsession, but I also love to need and be with friends and the two things often need to be together... it's a painful conflict that will never be smoothly resolved.
A real artist may create his picture in a lonely desert... gods look over his shoulder; he creates in their company. What does he care whether or not anybody admires his picture?
A very young painter is seldom alone. If he is an art student, he is in an art school with other students. He does not yet know that one day he will have to face himself as a solitary creature enclosed in a space of four walls... and that he will have to be a self-propelled being, with no one at is side.
An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.
Only in intimate communion with solitude may man find himself. Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun it.
Solitude and quiet are highly desirable, but the lack of them is no barrier to writing... The will to work builds all the seclusion that one needs.
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