Solitude is very restorative for me, especially because I spend so much time around other people and performing to people.

I think I definitely like the solitude of golf.

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.

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

Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.

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

The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come in and hopefully have something, then I wrestle with sounds and picture all day long. But the ideas usually come from a more obscure place, like a conversation with a director, a still somebody shows you, or whatever.

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

When you have a lot of solitude, any living thing becomes a companion.

The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude.

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

To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.

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

Don't be a writer; it's a terrible way to live your life. There's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don't expect anything from anybody.

Retire at various times into the solitude of your own heart, even while outwardly engaged in discussions or transactions with others, and talk to God.

Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone. Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves; that firm strand which will be the indispensable center of a whole web of human relationships.

The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.

This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.