O 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.
It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
The solution to alone-ness is not more solitude, but companionship and community.
I don't like being able to be reached. I enjoy my solitude. Even people having my phone number seems like too much.
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea - the profound solitude - that does it for me.
My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good?
Solitude begets whimsies.
I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go much deeper into my thoughts and memories than conversation does. Writing provides the solitude necessary to reflect on being in this world.
Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.
I really do work in solitude.
What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
I didn't choose solitude.
I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude.
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone.
We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.
With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.
Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost.
We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.
The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.
Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become.
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.
Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.
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.
Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.
We talk of communing with Nature, but 'tis with ourselves we commune... Nature furnishes the conditions - the solitude - and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
Solitude is independence.
A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.
Solitude is creativity's best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.
Often, marriage was solitude, with company.
