A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.

Sometimes I just need solitude, which is really rather nice.

Growing up a lonely only child prepared me for the years of solitude spent as a writer; years spent in the company of people who don't exist, imaginary people you have conversations with. It's a paid form of madness, this writing stuff.

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.

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

There's just an incredible amount of loneliness as a mother, all this solitude no one really speaks to.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

I grew up in the suburbs of Connecticut - during the school time of year - but I preferred it in New Hampshire. I preferred the culture, the landscape, the relative solitude. I've always loved it.

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

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.

This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.

Solitude is independence.

I love hotels for their solitude and comfort, but I believe a seedy one can have as much promise as a plush one.

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?

We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.

People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.

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.

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.