I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Henry David Thoreau

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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

I am a real lone wolf who has never wholeheartedly belonged to the State, to my country, my circle of friends and not even to my family but who, despite all these bonds, has constantly experienced a feeling of strangeness and the need for solitude.

Albert Einstein

There is some kind of sweet innocence in being human, in not having to be just happy or just sad, in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time.

Like it or not, there are times when you need to be alone; times when you need to be lonely; times when you need to need other people.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.

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