“I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
- Source
- Walden
- Date
- 1854
Meaning of “I love to be alone. I never found…”
Solitude is described as companionship rather than deprivation, making room for comfort in one’s own presence.
Where does it come from?
Walden, “Solitude”; Thoreau argues that physical aloneness need not amount to loneliness or lack of companionship.