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- "I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude." — Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854)
- "I go into solitude so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern." — Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Part IV (1885)
- "I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other." — Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (1903)
- "Without great solitude, no serious work is possible." — Pablo Picasso, Interview, reported by Christian Zervos (1935)
- "There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, there is a rapture on the lonely shore." — Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV (1818)
- "I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o'er vales and hills." — William Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, Poems in Two Volumes (1807)
- "Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self." — May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude (1973)
- "The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous." — Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds (1916)
- "Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul." — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book IV (c. 170 AD)
- "The Soul selects her own Society — Then — shuts the Door." — Emily Dickinson, Poem 303 (c. 1862)