Who said "To be truly alone is to be most fully alive."?

This quote is attributed to Herman Melville.

To be truly alone is to be most fully alive. - Herman Melville

"To be truly alone is to be most fully alive."

Herman Melville Solitude

Novelist American 1819–1891

"It is the privilege of the reader to slow down the author who goes too fast."

"Some certain significance lurks in all things, else all things are little worth."

"To know how to say what others only think is to be a poet."

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

"Sometimes being the best means being the loneliest."

"Solitude gives us time to reflect on what matters"

"I'm not good with people, never have been."

"I feel like I'm disappearing."