Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
~ Aristotle
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.
~ Abraham Cowley
Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude. It's no coincidence that the desert has been a major part of the visionary or mystical experience from the beginning of time.
~ Bill Viola
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
~ Aphra Behn
There are few places you can find silence. Air travel could be the last fortress of solitude.
~ Regina Brett
To 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 Hugo
If you have a trust in and an expectation of your own solitude, everything that you need to know will be revealed to you.
~ John O'donohue
Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.
~ Liv Tyler
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
~ James Russell Lowell
Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.
~ Robinson Jeffers
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I like peace and solitude and silence.
~ Carla Bruni
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
~ Albert Einstein
But I think there's something wonderful and extraordinary about climbing on your own and just that kind of relationship to the environment. I'm very addicted to the mountains. You know, so, I do like that solitude.
~ Andy Serkis
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
Someone who's awake in the middle of the night is a soul consciousness when everyone else is asleep, and that creates a feeling of solitude in poetry that I very much like.
~ Edward Hirsch
Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.
~ Henri Nouwen
To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.
~ Jeanne Moreau
Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.
~ Lord Byron
Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.
~ Elie Wiesel
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
~ Paul Valéry
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
~ Octavio Paz
Solitude is un-American.
~ Erica Jong
Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.
~ Guru Nanak
Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.
~ Abu Bakr
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
