We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not aid us; we shall die alone.

There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

Solitude is the mother of anxieties.

I picked at an omelette which had been cooked to the texture of chamois leather and drank, rather more enthusiastically, a bottle of California chablis, feeling my soiltude as a conspicuous caste mark.

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

You and I possess manifold ideal bonds in the interests we share; but each of us has his poor body and his irremediable, incommunicable dreams.

And if I go alone, I don't even have to talk.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.