Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
Winston Churchill
The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
Thomas Edison
Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.
Paul Tillich
In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.
Laurence Sterne
To seek solitude like a wild animal. That is my only ambition.
Dalai Lama
Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker.
Buddha
I love people. I love my family, my children... but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Pearl S. Buck
The strong man is strongest when alone.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!
Alexander Pope
Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.
Laurence Sterne
Solitude is certainly a fine thing; but there is pleasure in having someone who can answer, from time to time, that it is a fine thing.
Jean Louis Guez de Balzac
Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.
Richard Cecil