1. 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

2. Solitude is a lost art in these days of ultra-connectedness.

- Leo Babauta

3. The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.

- Voltaire

4. Solitude sometimes is best society.

- John Milton

5. There’s staggering power in leaving the world and heading out into some solitude for at least and hour every day.

- Robin Sharma

6. They simply never understand, do they, that sometimes solitude is one of the most beautiful things on earth?

- Charles Bukowski

7. Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.

- Criss Jami

8. I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone.

- Henry David Thoreau

9. Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

- Edward Gibbon

10. One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

11. A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

- Oscar Wilde

12. The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

13. Once you know how to take care of yourself, company becomes an option.

- Keanu Reeves

14. In solitude I find my answers.

- Kristen Butler

15. Make the time to be alone. Your best ideas live within solitude.

- Robin Sharma

16. Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

- Francis Bacon

17. Solitude, in these days as much as ever, is an absolute necessity.

- Leo Babauta

18. It would do the world good if every person would compel himself to often be alone. Most of the world’s progress has come from such.

- Deepak Chopra

19. Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone.

- Marty Rubin

20. In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

- Laurence Sterne

21. By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear.

- George Herbert

22. I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone.

- Elayne Boosler

23. Loneliness is to be avoided, solitude is to be sought.

- Tom Hanks

24. Sometimes, the most profound of awakenings come wrapped in the quietest of moments.

- Stephen Crane

25. Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

- Edward Gibbon

26. Solitude is un-American.

- Erica Jong

27. I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

28. I’ve never been lonely. I like myself. I’m the best form of entertainment I have.

- Charles Bukowski

29. The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

- Aldous Huxley

30. I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.

- Charles Bukowski

31. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

- Henry David Thoreau

32. All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

- Blaise Pascal

33. Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

- James Russell Lowell

34. I’ve often been with someone and wished I was alone. I’ve never been alone and wished I was not.

- Derek Sivers

35. My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

36. Without great solitude no serious work is possible.

- Pablo Picasso

37. It’s an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That’s always been a tug of war for me.

- Jodie Foster

38. Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn’t have to be a lonely kind of thing.

- Fred Rogers

39. Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.

- Robert Cecil

40. The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

- Epicurus

41. Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

- Winston Churchill

42. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

43. Solitude is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it.

- Deepak Chopra

44. Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

- Paul Tillich

45. I try to factor solitude into my life because more and more, that’s becoming a very precious and rare commodity.

- Robyn Davidson

46. Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

- Miguel de Unamuno

47. He who understands humanity seeks solitude.

- Ali ibn Abi Talib

48. The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude.

- Nikola Tesla

49. Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, and enthusiasm is the true parent of genius. In all ages solitude has been called for, has been flown to.

- Benjamin Disraeli

50. Talent is nurtured in solitude… A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

51. 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

52. In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us.

- Henri J.M. Nouwen

53. Sometimes the solitary voice can be the best one.

- Frank Miller

54. It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

- Rumi

55. Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.

- Lao Tzu

56. True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One’s inner voices become audible… In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives.

- Wendell Berry

57. I live in solitude. I have need of solitude to do the next day’s work. I can’t be to parties where the noise tires me. I can’t speak on the telephone. I must have complete calm.

- Yves Saint Laurent

58. You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

- Franz Kafka

59. A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

- Albert Einstein

60. When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.

- Gertrude Stein

61. Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

- Liv Tyler

62. Solitude is where I place my chaos to rest and awaken my inner peace.

- Nikki Rowe

63. Give solitude a chance. You’ve got nothing to lose. And your life to gain back.

- Joshua Becker

64. Blessed are those who do not fear solitude, who are not afraid of their own company, who are not always desperately looking for something to do, something to amuse themselves with, something to judge.

- Paolo Coelho

65. In solitude one finds only what he carries there with him.

- Juan Ramon Jimenez

66. You don’t need to be a monk to find solitude, nor do you need to be a hermit to enjoy it.

- Leo Babauta

67. Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

- May Sarton

68. I lived in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in maturity.

- Albert Einstein

69. When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.

- William Wordsworth

70. You are born alone. You die alone. The value of the space in between is trust and love.

- Louise Bourgeois

71. Solitude was my only consolation – deep, dark, deathlike solitude.

- Mary Shelley

72. Solitude appeared to me as the only fit state of man.

- Walter Benjamin

73. Solitude isn’t loneliness. Solitude is when the entire serene universe seems to surround and hold you quietly.

- Victoria Erickson

74. Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

75. Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.

- Paul Brunton

76. The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

- Michel de Montaigne

77. To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.

- Jeanne Moreau

78. The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.

- Omar Khayyam

79. Some of us are born to a solitary life.

- Philippa Gregory

80. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind.

- Nikola Tesla

81. Imagine a temple inside your mind, a haven from the chaos of the world. Visit often.

- Marienne Williamson

82. In solitude, listen to your heart, for at that moment, it speaks nothing but the truth.

- Michael Bassey Johnson

83. Spend some time alone. There’s so much you don’t know about yourself.

- Thibaut

84. The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

- Albert Einstein

85. 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

86. Solitude is a good place to visit but a poor play to stay.

- Josh Billings

87. Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

- Robert Browning

88. It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone.

- Mahatma Gandhi

89. Solitude is like punctuation. A paragraph without periods and commas would be exhausting to read.

- Arnie Kozak

90. Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.

- A. R. Rahman

91. In the temple of his spirit, each man is alone.

- Ayn Rand

92. Solitude is the place of purification and transformation, the place of the great struggle and the great encounter.

- Henri Nouwen

93. In stillness lives wisdom. In quiet you’ll find peace. In solitude you’ll remember yourself.

- Robin Sharma

94. We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.

- Philip Gilbert Hamerton

95. Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life.

- Paolo Coelho

96. Life is an island in an ocean of solitude and seclusion.

- Khalil Gibran

97. In proportion as a person simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude.

- Henry David Thoreau

98. In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

- Albert Camus

99. There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

- Maya Angelou

100. We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart… and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together… I think that at least part of the answer lies in solitude.

- Helen Hayes

101. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul.

- Carl Jung

102. Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

- Marcus Aurelius

103. The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

- Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solit

104. Solitude is the strength of being alone. It’s where we become our best company.

- Jay Shetty

105. Religion is what an individual does with his solitariness.

- Alfred North Whitehead

106. To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.

- Joseph Krutch

107. That is why I go into solitude so as not to drink out of everybody’s cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think as I really think; after a time it always seems as though they want to banish me from myself and rob me of my soul and I grow angry with everybody and fear everybody.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

108. One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

- Carl Sandburg

109. Your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

110. We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being.

- Hermann Hesse

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

- Honore de Balzac

112. In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.

- Rollo May, Man’s Search for Himself

113. Solitude is a catalyst for innovation.

- Susan Cain

114. When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death — ourselves.

- Eda LeShan

115. Don’t fear solitude: If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself. But don’t get too attached to it – it may become an addiction.

- Paulo Coelho

116. I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

- Henry David Thoreau

117. I chide society, I embrace solitude, and yet I am not so ungrateful as not to see the wise, the lovely and the noble-minded, as from time to time they pass my gate.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

118. In solitude you will find yourselves, and the pure thoughts will be realized.

- Brian Mellor, Joseph of Arimathea

119. I don’t mind being alone. I just don’t want to be part of the crowd.

- Naval Ravikant

120. 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

121. I don’t want to be alone. I want to be left alone.

- Audrey Hepburn

122. Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life’s nothingness.

- Andre Maurois

123. 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

124. A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.

- Don DeLillo

125. Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.

- Albert Einstein

126. A little while alone in your room will prove more valuable than anything else that could ever be given you.

- Rumi

127. Although the wish for solitude can be a denial of dependence, a capacity for solitude may be its fullest acknowledgment.

- Adam Phillips

128. I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

129. Solitude is dangerous. It’s very addictive. It becomes a habit after you realise how peaceful and calm it is. It’s like you don’t want to deal with people anymore because they drain your energy.

- Jim Carrey

130. Wherever you may seek solitude, men will ferret you out and compel you to belong to their desperate company of oddfellows.

- Henry David Thoreau