There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.

My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'.

I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.

In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human solitude and walls.

I sort of came from a big family - eight kids - and I guess I always, more than most people, really revel in privacy and solitude sometimes.

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone.

I grew up in Michigan. I feel like a lot of my childhood was in solitude, in the woods or making tree forts.

I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.

I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude.

Solitude begets whimsies.

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

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

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.

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

The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.