“I have not a desire but a need for solitude.”
Source: Mourning Diary
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Roland Barthes39
French philosopher, critic and literary theorist 1915–1980Related quotes
“Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.”
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer
La solitude est certainement une belle chose, mais il y a plaisir d'avoir quelqu'un qui sache répondre, à qui on puisse dire de temps en temps, que c'est un belle chose. (Solitude is certainly a fine thing; but there is pleasure in having someone who can answer, from time to time, that it is a fine thing.) —Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, Dissertations chrétiennes et morales (1665), XVIII: "Les plaisirs de la vie retirée".
Misattributed
“Nothing can be accomplished without solitude; I have made a kind of solitude for myself.”
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
Quote in "Picasso", Hans L. C. Jaffe, Thames and Hudson Ltd
Attributed from posthumous publications
“Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.”
James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
Dryden
Literary Essays, vol. III (1870-1890)
“Friendship needs no words — it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.”
Dag Hammarskjöld (1905–1961) Swedish diplomat, economist, and author
Variant translation: Friendship needs no words — it is a loneliness relieved of the anguish of loneliness.
Markings (1964)
“Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh book Gift from the Sea
Source: Gift from the Sea
“Solitude is good, desolation is bad. I have experienced both.”
Luis Miguel (1970) Puerto Rican singer; music producer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYH0SnfpuNU
Interview in Mexico, 1995