Joseph Roux Quotes

What good is sitting all alone in your room?

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different.

Loneliness is such an omnipotent and painful threat to many persons that they have little conception of the positive values of solitude and even, at times, are frightened at the prospect of being alone.

No man is an island, as they say. No. I've tried it. I've gone on retreats at various times in my life for three or four or five days. I was desperate to get out of there and talk to somebody. But I fly fish a lot, and I can only do that really by myself. I find I'm never lonesome when I'm on a river, far from it, but it's a lonely practice.

Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. Let him who is not in community beware of being alone.

Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.

I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in poor company.

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me.

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

It's no fun being lonely.

One major challenge within happiness is loneliness. The more I've learned about happiness, the more I've come to believe that loneliness is a terrible, common, and important obstacle to consider.

When you have a lot of solitude, any living thing becomes a companion.

I make a genuine distinction between loneliness and aloneness. I know what each is like. There are times I'm lonely. But there are also many times when I need to be alone, when I don't want the feeling of someone else in the house other than the cats.

People think being alone is a luxury, but it's crucial: Whatever you're not down with about yourself gets loud and in your face.

Far from 'rotting my brain,' as I was often told would happen, TV helped me feel less alone at a time when I spent so much time alone.

It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had to think and, these days, thoughts were not so pleasant.

People who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger.

Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood.

Isolation must precede true society.

It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.

There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman