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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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.
I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after some time your solitude would become perhaps attractive if you were to people it with creatures of your own fancy.
There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
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.