She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude…

Solitude and company may be allowed to take their turns: the one creates in us the love of mankind, the other that of ourselves;…

— Seneca the Younger

Consider well before you immerse yourself in solitude whether your own company will be good for you.

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Often, marriage was solitude, with company.

— Deb Caletti

“One becomes accustomed to one's solitude, and it begins to seem rather phony to try to reach out.”

— Louisa Hall

There is one characteristic of the present direction of public opinion, peculiarly calculated to make it intolerant of any marked demonstration of individuality. The…

— John Stuart Mill

Books should confuse. Literature abhors the typical. Literature flows to the particular, the mundane, the greasiness of paper, the taste of warm beer, the…

— Richard Rodriguez

What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.

— Edith Wharton

There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were…

— Edith Wharton

I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life. Few of the others, however, had the possibility of direct gains in…

— Neil Armstrong

To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Democracy is not being well served as we're accustomed to. There is less information, there's less investigation, there's less analysis, there's less accountability.

— Edward Greenspon

Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense…

— Jon Krakauer

There are those that say, if you do the uncomfortable thing long enough, it will become comfortable. But we are really not encouragers of…

— Esther Hicks

A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually…

— Mark Twain

We are puzzled and bewildered whenever we see suffering in this world because we have become accustomed to the mercy and the long-suffering of…

— R. C. Sproul