Solitude is the companion of warriors.

Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

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

Everyone has their moments of solitude, difficulties, and vulnerability.

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 think I definitely like the solitude of golf.

I used to ski across the vast white expanses of a quiet and lonely mountaintop. In the stillness and solitude... I pondered the mysteries of the universe, the planet, nature and of man. I'm still pondering.

Solitude is not the same as loneliness. Solitude is a solitary boat floating in a sea of possible companions.

Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.

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

Solitude is the place of purification.

For me, there's nothing better than getting immersed in a sprawling, epic, multi-generational family saga, and 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the most sprawling, epic, and multi-generational of them all.

Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different.

I don't like being able to be reached. I enjoy my solitude. Even people having my phone number seems like too much.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is such a powerful book, and 'Love in the Time of Cholera' is so strangely, brilliantly optimistic.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

I have to say that I have no regrets about my decision to become a priest or about the major directions my ministry has taken me... I have been and am happy as a priest, and I have never been lonely... I could have used a bit more solitude.

I reflected much on that vain desire, which had pursued me for so many years, of being in solitude in order to be a Christian. I have now, thought I, solitude enough; but am I therefore the nearer being a Christian? Not if Jesus Christ be the model of Christianity.

There's a difference between loneliness and solitude. You pursue solitude, I think. But loneliness is a completely different isolating thing.