Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
Albert Einstein
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
Edward Gibbon
Introverts like being introverts. We are drawn to ideas, we are passionate observers, and for us, solitude is rich and generative.
Laurie Helgoe
Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion.
Marilu Henner
Solitude is independence.
Hermann Hesse
You can't write an image, a metaphor, a story, a phrase, without leaning a little further into the shared world, without recognizing that your... →
Jane Hirshfield
Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.
Robinson Jeffers
Solitude is un-American.
Erica Jong
The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
Omar Khayyam