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".
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Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac (1597–1654) French author, best known for his epistolary essays
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.
Dissertations chrétiennes et morales (1665), XVIII: "Les plaisirs de la vie retirée".
“A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“O Solitude! You are my home, Solitude!”
Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“if you tell yourself you feel fine, you will.”
Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper
Source: My Sister's Keeper
“I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: The Last Night of the Earth Poems
“I have not a desire but a need for solitude.”
Roland Barthes (1915–1980) French philosopher, critic and literary theorist
Source: Mourning Diary
“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)
