Solitude favors the original, the daringly and otherworldly beautiful, the poem. But it also favors the wrongful, the extreme, the absurd, and the forbidden.

Your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes, far in the distance.

Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold them and be fair to them.

The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.

Never forget that solitude is my lot … I implore those who love me to love my solitude.” (Letter to Mimi Romanelli, May 11, 1910)

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone

No man will ever unfold the capacities of his own intellect who does not at least checker his life with solitude

And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants to move out of it.

But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.

The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one – this one must be able to attain.

Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to you are distant.

I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

When the silence and the aloneness press down and around me, crushing me, carving through me like ice, I need to speak aloud sometimes, if only for proof of life.

Some people, weak people, fear solitude. What they fail to understand is that you don’t need anyone, you can take care of yourself.

There’s a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought to have spent in solitude and meditation, in endeavoring to make myself worthy of being loved

The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toilc

While growing up, I used to go to the beach, as I used to find peace there.

Books are the companions of solitude

Accustomed to motion, he was forced to be still.

Solitude is so necessary both for society and for the individual that when society fails to provide sufficient solitude to develop the inner life of the persons who compose it, they rebel and seek false solitudes

Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it

It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.

Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude in our lives to enable the deeper voice of our own self to be heard at least occasionally.

I shall lead you through the loneliness, the solitude you will not understand; but it is my shortcut to your soul.

It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.

I have only one desire, and that is the desire for solitude-to disappear into God, to be submerged in His peace, to be lost in the secret of His Face

The speech of God is silence. His Word is solitude.

I had to learn – since I’m divorced now and everyone is like, ‘Oh my God, you’re single, what’s going on?’ – that if I don’t like to spend time with myself, how can I ask someone else to enjoy spending time with me? I’m getting to learn how to enjoy my solitude and have a good time.

He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.

[Colonel Aureliano Buendía’s] orders were being carried out even before they were given, even before he thought of them, and they always went much beyond what he would have dared have them do. Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction.

People doomed to live 100 years of solitude have no second chance on this earth.

Solitude is the deepest bond we can have.

The secret of good old-age is none other than an honest pact with solitude.

I learned to love myself, because I sleep with myself every night and I wake up with myself every morning, and if I don’t like myself, there’s no reason to even live the life.

Like all things in the universe, we are destined from birth to diverge. Time is simply the yard-stick of our separation. If we are particles in a sea of distance, exploded from an original whole, then there is a science to our solitude. We are lonely in proportion to our years.

They say that there are many saints in Tibet who remain in solitude and are still very helpful to the world… “It can be so. Realisation of the Self is the greatest help that can be rendered to humanity. Therefore, the saints are said to be helpful, though they remain in forests. But it should not be forgotten that solitude is not in forest only. It can be had even in towns, in the thick of worldly occupations.

Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.

Blessed are those who do not fear solitude, who are not afraid of their own company, who are not always desperately looking for something to do, something to amuse themselves with, something to judge.

Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Let us thank the life I have lived for all the happy and all the sad hours, for every joy, for every sadness. My soul, my journey, should continue with you. I will wander with you and ascend to my solitude.

It is when two such persons discover one another, when, whether with immense difficulties and semi-articulate fumblings or with what would seem to us amazing and elliptical speed, they share their vision – it is then that Friendship is born. And instantly they stand together in an immense solitude

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker.

Inviolable solitude.

The practice of solitude had given him a love for it, as happens with every big thing which we have begun by fearing.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

If a man does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free

He clings to his solitude—to his affected indifference and his grown-up ways, but it’s just an act, so as never, never to show his real feelings

May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

I awoke, only to see the rest of the World was still asleep.