Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.
There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.
Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.
Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
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.
The solution to alone-ness is not more solitude, but companionship and community.
Solitude is not the same as loneliness. Solitude is a solitary boat floating in a sea of possible companions.
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.
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.