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The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude. – Voltaire

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. – William Penn

True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow. – Edward Hoagland

No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength. – Jack Kerouac

We visit others as a matter of social obligation. How long has it been since we have visited with ourselves? – Morris Adler

There are days when you seek the company of your solitude, and your solitude just wants to be left alone. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude. – Paul Tillich

There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you…. In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself. – Ruth Stout

Solitude is a form of meditation. – Terri Guillemets

You will not find a soulmate in the quiet of your room. You must go to a noisy place and look in the quiet corners. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

I owe my solitude to other people. – Alan Watts

Life without a friend is death without a witness. – Proverb

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude. – Joseph Addison

Man was formed for society and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it. – William Blackstone

The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and difference as do solitude and community. One does not exist without the other. Right speech comes out of silence, and right silence comes out of speech. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The higher we rise, the more isolated we become; all elevations are cold. – Boufflers

The right to be alone — the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man. – Louis D. Brandeis

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily. – Arthur Brisbane

This great misfortune — to be incapable of solitude. – Jean De La Bruyere

To fly from, need not be to hate, makind:
All are not fit with them to stir and toil,
Nor is it discontent to keep the mind
Deep in its fountain. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron