Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I have attained it.

moonlight disappears down the hillsmountains vanish into fogand i vanish into poetry.

Et quelqu'un qui parle. À lui-même. Pour ne pas être tout seul.

Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude.

Seeking higher ground is not a destination, but an elevation. Wings up, eyes shut open.

I would have stayed a hundred times and I would have left one time only - still, I left.

Like dry ground welcoming the rain, he let the solitude, silence, and loneliness soak in.

But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."[The Minotaur]

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Solitude was her anchor. A familiar misery, and anymore the safest, most sensible approach.

I like it where it gets dark at night, and if you want noise, you have to make it yourself.

Silence is fine if I am on my own but it's not overly sociable if my husband is around!

Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rudeAnd fled to the silence of sweet solitude.