Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
Albert Einstein
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Mother Teresa
Solitude is often the best society
Proverb
I owe my solitude to other people.
Alan Watts
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
Octavio Paz
Solitude is the play field of Satan
Vladimir Nabokov
The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
Voltaire
Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.
John Stuart Blackie
The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires.
Omar Khayyam
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.
Thomas de Quincey
The best thinking has been done in solitude.
Thomas Alva Edison
Solitude is as needed to the imagination as society is wholesome to the character.
James Russell Lowell
Solitude is the playfield of Satan.
Vladimir Nabokov
Solitude is a kind of freedom.
Umberto Eco