Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.
Anna Neagle

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

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
Octavio Paz

Solitude is un-American.
Erica Jong

Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost.
Kevin Patterson

Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.
Robert Cecil

Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
Moliere

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.
Joseph Roux

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.
Karl Kraus

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. The worst has been done in turmoil.
Thomas A. Edison

The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude.
Riccardo Muti

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
Albert Einstein

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

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
Washington Irving

The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
Omar Khayyam

The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.
Allen Ginsberg

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
Francis Bacon

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette