I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
The solution to alone-ness is not more solitude, but companionship and community.
Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.
Solitude is not the same as loneliness. Solitude is a solitary boat floating in a sea of possible companions.
Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.
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.
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.