Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.
Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.
Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.
Solitude is not the same as loneliness. Solitude is a solitary boat floating in a sea of possible companions.
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
The solution to alone-ness is not more solitude, but companionship and community.
Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.