Post #3193

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family: but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.
—Willa Sibert Cather

Post #3107

I converse with myself alone and with my books.
—Pliny the Younger

Post #2917

Man dwells: apart. though not alone,
He walks among his peers unread;
The best of thought: which he hath known,
For lack of listeners are not said.
—]ean lngelow

Post #2758

Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge College is as solitary as a dervis in the desert.
—Henry David Thoreau

Post #2547

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

Post #1967

Those beings only are fit for solitude, who like nobody, are like nobody, and are liked by nobody.

—Johann Georg von Zimmermann 

Post #1887

Solitude shows us what we should be; society shows us what we are.
—Rev. Richard Cecil

Post #1736

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.
—Joseph Roux

Post #1470

Solitude bears the same relation to the mind that sleep does to the body. It affords it the necessary opportunities for repose and recovery.
—William Gilmore Simms

Post #1396

In solitude all great thoughts are born.
—Moses Harvey

Post #1360

One can be instructed in society; one is inspired only in solitude.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Post #911

It is fine to be out on the hills alone. A man can hardly be a beast or a fool alone on a great mountain.

—Francis Kilvert

Post #776

No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength.
—Jack Kerouac

Post #309

If from Society we learn to live
'Tis Solitude should teach us how to die;
It hath no flatterers.
—Lord Byron