When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.

Quote by Gertrude Stein

Topics: Solitude Quotes

Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.

Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.

The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be...

There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be...

There is no such thing as being good to your wife.

There is no such thing as being good to your wife.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.

Action and reaction are equal and opposite.

Action and reaction are equal and opposite.

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut...

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut...

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with...

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with...

Melanctha Herbert was always losing what she had in all the things she saw. Melanctha...

Melanctha Herbert was always losing what she had in all the things she saw. Melanctha...

Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested...

Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested...

I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the...

I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the...

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch...

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch...

To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is...

To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is...

Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man...

Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man...

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

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

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be...

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be...