If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.
In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.
In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of less value (perhaps) than a human spirit. Its value lies in the greater possibility of attention.
In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
In solitude, where we are least alone.
In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages.
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Life without a friend is death without a witness.
May God be gracious to each lonely one who walks in silence towards the setting sun.
No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings
Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict — girding up its armor to meet the most insidious foe.
Shakespeare, Leonardo Da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, and Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio, or looked at a TV They had loneliness and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would mark.
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
Solitude begets whimsies.
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