Solitude is independence.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth but delicious in the years of maturity.

Love consists in this that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you’ll be quite a lot!

Should a seeker not find a companion who is better or equal, let them resolutely pursue a solitary course.

Human 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.

I 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.

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.

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

As 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.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

In Genesis it says that it is not good for a man to be alone, but sometimes it is a great relief.

Then stirs the feeling infinite so felt, In solitude where we are least alone.

I owe my solitude to other people.

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.