Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything..

There is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly exchange it for any kind of ….

Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn’t even begin to solve..

It is a difficult lesson to learn today-to leave one's friends and family and deliberately practice the art of solitude for an hour or a day or a wee….

In life there are certain sores which, like a kind of canker, slowly erode the soul in solitude..

Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company..

And Vin liked solitude. When you're alone, no one can betray you.

If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself..

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

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

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living..

Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I could not abide?.

Silence and solitude, the soul's best friends..

I treasure solitude. One doesn't have to have human contact..

It's practically my subject, my theme: solitude and community; the weirdness and terrors of solitude: the stifling and consolations of community. Als….

Solitude is not an absence of energy or action, as some believe, but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted to us from the soul..

While you are alone you are entirely your own master and if you have one companion you are but half your own, and the less so in proportion to the in….

We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart... and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together.... I think that at least part of th….

The bitter pinecone may be eaten, The mist on high give nourishment. The whole world takes to go-and-getting; My way alone is difficult..

Solitude is bearable only with God..

I live now in solitude and am able to use my time reflecting on the past and preparing for death. I cannot put away the thought of the Indians and in….