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

Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is.
William Jay

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.
Publilius Syrus

I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
Zane Grey

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
Jorge Luis Borges

I didn't choose solitude.
Klaus Kinski

I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.
Iris Chang

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
Henry David Thoreau

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
Henry David Thoreau

I have to say that I have no regrets about my decision to become a priest or about the major directions my ministry has taken me... I have been and am happy as a priest, and I have never been lonely... I could have used a bit more solitude.
Andrew Greeley

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
Rainer Maria Rilke

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Albert Einstein

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Henry David Thoreau

I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.
Mark Burnett

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Henry David Thoreau

I owe my solitude to other people.
Alan Watts

I really do work in solitude.
Donna Tartt

I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude.
Michael Chabon

I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after some time your solitude would become perhaps attractive if you were to people it with creatures of your own fancy.
Wilfrid Laurier

I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.
Catie Curtis