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.

But when I lived as a monk, solitude is often spoken of as a strength. And so the first thing I'd recommend is finding one thing that you can do every single day that brings you joy. It may be reading a book you love. It may be looking at a beautiful piece of art.

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

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

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

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

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

But I think there's something wonderful and extraordinary about climbing on your own and just that kind of relationship to the environment. I'm very addicted to the mountains. You know, so, I do like that solitude.

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

I like peace and solitude and silence.

We talk of communing with Nature, but 'tis with ourselves we commune... Nature furnishes the conditions - the solitude - and the soul furnishes the entertainment.

No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature, than the laborer at some close in-door employment.

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

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

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

How can we have our privacy? How can we have our independence now in these times with these cameras? Because I think privacy and our solitude is really important.

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

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

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

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