Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather it is a deepening of the present and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

I had three chairs in my house one for solitude two for friendship three for society.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom others when it is a bitter tonic and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

In thinking about religion and society in the 21st century we should broaden the conversation about faith from doctrinal debates to the larger question of how it might inspire us to strengthen the bonds of belonging that redeem us from our solitude helping us to construct together a gracious and generous social order.

Life is the desert life the solitude death joins us to the great majority.

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space eternity life and death.

With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.

Mass communication radio and especially television have attempted not without success to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world and droop. Sick of its business of its pleasures tired how gracious how benign is solitude.

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.

I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse the illicit the absurd.

As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude though I realize that's also likely a false nostalgia as I know there was nothing I wanted more during those periods than to not be alone whatever that means.

But in the end in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone that one lives at the heart of a solitude.

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 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.

I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone.

Look if I were alone in the world I would have the right to choose despair solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.

God created man and finding him not sufficiently alone gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

Then stirs the feeling infinite so felt In solitude where we are least alone.

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.