To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.
Richard Steele
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
Stendhal
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
Robert Louis Stevenson
He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.
Publilius Syrus
I really do work in solitude.
Donna Tartt
I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.
Paul Theroux
I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Henry David Thoreau
Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.
Liv Tyler
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
Paul Valery
Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance.
Jules Verne