From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.
Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost.
But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning.
No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water. It is the inmost core of each of us that, that part which nobody can define but which we all recognize because it never changes.
Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.
Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.
The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude.
Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.
To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.
Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.
Solitude begets whimsies.
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.