Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. – Octavio Paz
There are few places you can find silence. Air travel could be the last fortress of solitude. – Regina Brett
What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy. – Salman Rushdie
To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude. – Richard Steele
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal – every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open – this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude. – Washington Irving
Some people don’t like long bus rides, but I love them. There’s sort of a sense of solitude. – Sam Hunt
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. – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
There’s a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while. – Tom Hanks
O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. – William Cowper
I’m as much my own master as anyone can be, without being the master of others. I can write anywhere – all I need is a couple of hours of solitude and a computer, and I can write a chapter. Since my work is portable, I can live anywhere I like. – Stuart Woods
We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude. – Salvatore Quasimodo
Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is. – William Jay
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. – Victor Hugo