“I lived in solitude to be at one with oneself, to remove all external judgement, only now it's internal judgement of oneself and I talk to myself”
Daniel Robert O'Neill
“I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind”
Albert Einstein
“I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
Henry David Thoreau
“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.”
“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.”
May Sarton
“Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.”
Barbara De Angelis
