Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlovely being alone can be

Sometimes when you're really lonely, you really feel alive and you feel like you know who you are

Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition . . .

Solitude is often the best society

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty

I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature

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