Solitude
• Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone. —Paul Tillich
• Solitude is the school of genius. — Edward Gibbon
• In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. — Tibullus (d. 18 b.c.)
• I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. — Thoreau
• I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. — Albert Einstein
• The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. —Albert Einstein
• The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. —Edward Gibbon
• This great misfortune—to be incapable of solitude. — Jean de la Bruyere
• I hold this to the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other. — Rainer Maria Rilke