Character Quote by Samuel Johnson

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself.

— Alice Hegan Rice

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of…

— Abraham Cowley

Solitude is nothing that one can choose or retrain from. We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“For solitude confers a twofold advantage on the intellectually superior person; first of all, being on his own, and the second, not being with…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Solitude is impractical, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other. The conditions are met,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no doubt that solitude is a challenge and to maintain balance within it a precarious business. But I must not forget that,…

— May Sarton

In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

— Octavio Paz

“Solitude means withdrawal from an artificial and fictional level of being which men, divided by original sin, have fabricated in order to keep peace…

— Thomas Merton

Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.

— Honore De Balzac

Solitude is so necessary both for society and for the individual that when society fails to provide sufficient solitude to develop the inner life…

— Thomas Merton