I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Albert Einstein
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Aristotle
I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.
Charlotte Bronte
Being alone never felt right. Sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
Charles Bukowski
If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Bacon
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, and the absurd.
Thomas Mann
I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Henry David Thoreau
In a soulmate we find not company but a complete solitude.
Robert Brault
Finding solitude in the concrete jungle is powerful and peaceful.
Mike Dolan
The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
Voltaire
Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
Honore de Balzac
Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.
Paul Brunton
Solitude is the place of purification.
Martin Buber