Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

Naturally enough when I was a young dancer, I was terribly anxious to get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was impatient with all those older people who talked of the long grind to the top, who turned me down for jobs I knew I could do.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!

Everyone needs some time to themselves.

But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for.

No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water. It is the inmost core of each of us that, that part which nobody can define but which we all recognize because it never changes.

The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.

I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains.

What, I sometimes wonder, would it be like if I lived in a country where winter is a matter of a few chilly days and a few weeks' rain; where the sun is never far away, and the flowers bloom all year long?

But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning.

If we fix a goal and work towards it, then we are never just passing time.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window.

Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

Fame doesn't end loneliness.

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

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.

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness.

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.

Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.

It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.

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

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.