“Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.”
“If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.”
“The higher we rise, the more isolated we become; all elevations are cold.”
“Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.”
“Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius.”
“Solitude is as needed to the imagination as society is wholesome to the character.”
“In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.”
“An artist is always alone -- if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.”
“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.”
“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”
“To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.”
“O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings”
“Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.”
“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
“To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self.”
“The right to be alone -- the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man.”
“No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.”
“Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.”
“True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow.”
“Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.”
“We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.”
“History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.”
“I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.”
“One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict -- girding up its armor to meet the most insidious foe.”
“Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.”
“With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.”
“In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?”
“What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, and all these at thy command to come and play before thee?”
“Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.”