To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.

The right to be alone -- the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man.

No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.

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.

I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius.

I want to be left alone.

In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.

There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Just as humans posses a herding instinct that keeps us close to others most of the time, we also have a conflicting drive to seek out solitude. If the distance between ourselves and others becomes too great, we experience isolation and alienation, yet if the proximity to others becomes too close, we feel smothered and trapped.

Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.

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.

To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self.

Solitude begets whimsies.

If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.

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.

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

You have already failed if you need a lot of inspectors.