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

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
Robert Louis Stevenson

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

This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.
Jean de la Bruyere

To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.
Richard Steele

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
Victor Hugo

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.
Jeanne Moreau

Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.
Henry Home

We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton

We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.
Salvatore Quasimodo

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.
Salman Rushdie

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign in solitude.
William Wordsworth

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
Robert Browning

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Francis Bacon

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Aristotle

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.
Frank Muir

With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.
Lee Krasner

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
Barbara de Angelis

Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.
Peter Benchley