The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.[El secreto de una buena vejez no es otra cosa que un pacto honrado con la soledad.]
The man who goes alone can start to-day; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.[La plus grande chose du monde c’est de sçauoir estre à soy.]
The artist after all is a solitary being.
Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
Solitude may rust your words.
Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life.[A solidão não é a ausência de companhia, mas o momento em que nossa alma tem a liberdade de conversar conosco e nos ajudar a decidir sobre nossas vidas.]
Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge College is as solitary as a dervis in the desert.
Solitude is frightful to a widow of twenty.[La solitude effraie une âme de vingt ans.]
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were too scared of being alone.
