Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are. Robert Cecil
Solitude is a good place to visit but a poor play to stay. Josh Billings
The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude. Gabriel García Márquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude)
The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd. Epicurus
On being alone: I think it’s a good thing to do; you get to know yourself, and I think that’s the most important thing in the whole world. Robert Paul Smith
As a society moves from scarcity to abundance, the cultural value that is most likely to be underdeveloped is restraint. Michael
Deep understanding requires deep thinking which requires focused time alone, away from the chatter of people online and offline. It requires staying with a single thought for a long time, focusing on it and developing it. In solitude is the genesis of great ideas. The Ancient Sage
Aloneness is obviously not isolation, and it is not uniqueness. To be unique is merely to be exceptional in some way, whereas to be completely alone demands extraordinary sensitivity, intelligence, understanding. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe. Lao Tzu
Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The value of solitude – one of its values – is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there is nothing to help balance at times of particular stress or depression. May Sarton
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. Pearl S. Buck
To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do to this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions. Deepak Chopra
We visit others as a matter of social obligation. How long has it been since we have visited with ourselves? Morris Adler
Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn’t have to be a lonely kind of thing. Fred Rogers
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free. Arthur Schopenhauer
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only one who seeks out another. Octavio Paz
Man is nostalgia and a search for communion. Therefore, when he is aware of himself he is aware of his lack of another, that is, of his solitude. Octavio Paz
We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest. Philip Gilbert Hamerton
No person can achieve significance alone. John C. Maxwell
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. Mel Robbins
In solitude one finds only what he carries there with him. Juan Ramon Jimenez
