Solitude is independence.
Herman HesseI live in that solitude which is painful in youth but delicious in the years of maturity.
Albert EinsteinLove consists in this that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Rainer Maria RilkeAll alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you’ll be quite a lot!
Dr. SeussShould a seeker not find a companion who is better or equal, let them resolutely pursue a solitary course.
BuddhaHuman beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.
Paulo CoelhoI have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.
Kahlil GibranOne of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
Carl SandburgSolitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
MoliereForget sex, or politics, or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.
Doug CouplandAs you simplify your life the laws of the universe will be simpler, solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
Henry David ThoreauSolitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
James Russell LowellThen stirs the feeling infinite so felt, In solitude where we are least alone.
Lord ByronI owe my solitude to other people.
Alan WattsA great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.
Mason CooleyWomen need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
Barbara de AngelisI love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Henry David ThoreauSolitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.
Thomas MertonLoneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Mother TeresaOne can acquire everything in solitude, except character.
StendhalSolitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
Honore de BalzacIn solitude where we are least alone.
Lord ByronHaving abandoned the ways of darkness, let the wise follow the light. Having come from home to homelessness, let him enjoy the bliss of solitude so difficult to achieve.
BuddhaOne can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
Thomas A. EdisonPeople who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.
Mason CooleyThe monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
Albert EinsteinI had three chairs in my house, one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
Henry David ThoreauWhosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Francis BaconThe worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
Francis BaconThe biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
Mother TeresaA creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself it is a child of solitude.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheHe makes a solitude and calls it - peace
Lord ByronIt is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult, that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
Rainer Maria RilkeMusic was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Maya AngelouThere are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
Sidonie Gabrielle ColetteSilence is a friend who will never betray.
ConfuciusIf you have a sick or lonely person at home, be there. Maybe just to hold a hand, maybe just to give a smile, that is the greatest, the most beautiful work.
Mother TeresaWe can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.
Mother TeresaWithin you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at anytime and be yourself.
Herman HesseSolitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.
Herman HesseThis life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.
BuddhaTo be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented is the only pleasing solitude.
Joseph AddisonI hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
Rainer Maria RilkeSolitude is painful when one is young but delightful when one is more mature.
Albert EinsteinWhat loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
George EliotThere is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
Eric HofferEven cats grow lonely and anxious.
Mason CooleyLetter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company
Lord ByronThe gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
Alice WalkerI have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men, than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
Henry David ThoreauTo give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
Victor HugoThere is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which rightly understood is solitude made perfect.
Robert Louis StevensonLike a lion without fear of the howling pack, Like a gust of wind ne're trapped in a snare, Like a lotus blossom ne're sprinkled by water, Let me like a unicorn in solitude roam.
BuddhaI never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Henry David ThoreauReading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women, and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man and these lead him constantly into danger.
Jean-Jacques RousseauO solitude where are the charms, That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.
William CowperGreat men are like eagles and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Arthur Schopenhauer