Marcel Proust Quotes

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

We must relearn to be alone.

He makes a solitude, and calls it - peace!

So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.

More and more I find myself at a loss for words and didn't want to hear other people talking either. Their conversations seemed false and empty. I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone.

The silence was always the greates temptation.

Silence and darkness were all I craved. Well, I get a certain amount of both. They being one.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

I aspire only to silence.

With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.

I love silence.

Even Echo speaks not on these radiant moors.

But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.

In fact at home I sometimes like to be quiet and hear the sounds of the world outside.

I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.

I crave a cone of silence every once in while.

I feel calm when I'm on my own.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.