Best company & solitude Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“As an introvert, you can be your own best friend or your worst enemy. The good news is we generally like our own company, a quality that extroverts often envy. We find comfort in solitude and know how to soothe ourselves. Even our willingness to look at ourselves critically is often helpful.But, we can go too far. We can hoard responsibility and overlook the role others play. We can kick ourselves when we're down. How many times have you felt lousy about something, only to get mad at yourself for feeling lousy?”

Knows Looks Play Feelings Felt Quality Responsibility Company Enemy Roles Know How Worst Comfort Solitude News Mad Envy Kicks Helpful Willingness Introvert Good News Worst Enemy Extroverts

Author:Laurie Helgoe

“alone, adj. In bad company.”

Company Solitude Bad Company

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: Complete & Unabridged

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: Complete & Unabridged

“In solitude we have our dreams to ourselves, and in company we agree to dream in concert.”

Art Philosophy Dream Company History Solitude Agree Concerts Our Dreams

Book:Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales

Source: Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales

“Solitude desolates me; company oppresses me.”

Company Solitude

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“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.”

Ideas School Culture Company Creativity Fashion Solitude Achievement Gregarious Groupthink

Author:Susan Cain

“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?”

Looks May Doe Real Care Artist Company Solitude Lonely Shoulders Admire Desert Real Artists Does He Care

Book:The arts and their mission

Source: The arts and their mission

“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.”

Men May Company Solitude Architecture Intimate Communion Good Company

Author:Luis Barragan

“Consider well before you immerse yourself in solitude whether your own company will be good for you.”

Wells Company Solitude Be Good

Book:Aphorisms

Source: Aphorisms

“Solitude is very sad, Too much company twice as bad.”

Company Too Much Solitude Very Sad

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem. Can blue solve the problem, or can it at least keep me company within it?-No, not exactly. It cannot love me that way; it has no arms. But sometimes I do feel its presence to be a sort of wink-Here you are again, it says, and so am I.”

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Book:Bluets

Source: Bluets

“I think being an only child created in me a degree of self-reliance, which I'm glad of. It made me perfectly happy with my own company and perhaps was good conditioning for the protracted solitude of writing books as slowly as I do.”

Thinking Writing Children Made Book Self My Own Company Solitude Degrees Glad Self Reliance Reliance Conditioning Writing A Book Only Child

Author:Alan Hollinghurst

“The true solitary ... will feel that he is himself only when he is alone; when he is in company he will feel that he perjures himself, prostitutes himself to the exactions of others; he will feel that time spent in company is time lost; he will be conscious only of his impatience to get back to his true life.”

Feels Lost Company Solitude Conscious Get Back Solitary Impatience True Life Time Spent

Author:Vita Sackville-West

“The larger the ego, the less the need for other egos around. The more modest, humble, and self-effacing we feel, the more we suffer from solitude, feeling ourselves inadequate company.”

Needs Feels Self Feelings Suffering Company Solitude Ego Humble Modest Inadequate

Book:One's Company: Reflections on Living Alone

Source: One's Company: Reflections on Living Alone

“A certain degree of solitude seems necessary to the full growth and spread of the highest mind; and therefore must a very extensive intercourse with men stifle many a holy germ, and scare away the gods, who shun the restless tumult of noisy companies and the discussion of petty interests.”

Men Mind Seems Certain Growth Interest Company Holy Solitude Degrees Highest Spread Discussion Scare Petty Restless Intercourse Noisy Germs Tumult

Author:Novalis

“In good company your thoughts run, in solitude your thought is still ... In talk your mind can be stretched, widened, exhilarated to heights, but it cannot be deepened; you have to deepen it yourself.”

Thinking Mind Stills Running Company Solitude Height Good Company

Book:Rungli-Rungliot means in Paharia, Thus far and no further

Source: Rungli-Rungliot means in Paharia, Thus far and no further

“The telephone conversation is, by its very nature, reactive, not reflective. Immediacy is its prime virtue. ... The letter, written in absorbed solitude, is an act of faith: it assumes the presence of humanity: world and self are generated from within: loneliness is courted, not feared. To write a letter is to be alone with my thoughts in the conjured presence of another person. I keep myself imaginative company. I occupy the empty room.”

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Author:Vivian Gornick

“But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.”

Men Company Solitude Quiet Lays Lust Heat Ashes

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Alone? Is he alone at whose right side rides Courage, with Skill within the cockpit and faith upon the left? Does solitude surround the brave when Adventure leads the way and Ambition reads the dials? Is there no company with him, for whom the air is cleft by Daring and the darkness made light by Emprise?”

Way Doe Made Soul Light Left Sides Company Darkness Air Adventure Solitude Skills Ambition Brave Surround Daring Cockpit

Author:Charles Lindbergh

“I and my bosom must debate awhile, and then I would no other company.”

Thinking Company Meditation Solitude Debate Thoughtful Bosoms

Book:Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes

Source: Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes

“Can you be alone without being lonely? Can you spend time by yourself without craving noise or company of other people? Have you discovered the glory of quiet time spent alone, time spent listening to your soul? Solitude brings with it gifts that come from nowhere else.”

People Soul Company Listening Solitude Quiet Glory Lonely Noise Your Soul End Times Craving Spend Time Being Lonely Time Spent Alone Time Quiet Time

Author:Steve Goodier

“True happiness is impossible without solitude.... I need solitude in my life as I need food and drink and the laughter of little children. Extravagant though it may sound, solitude is the filter of my soul. It nourishes me, and rejuvenates me. Left alone, I discovered that I keep myself good company.”

Needs May Children Littles Soul Left Sound Company Impossible Drink Solitude Laughter My Soul True Happiness Filters Left Alone Extravagant Good Company Food And Drink

Author:Sophia Loren

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