Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost.
Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.
As a model, I didn't have an identity; I was a chameleon, a silent actress. I was an amorphous thing. I wasn't full of personality, I was full of solitude and solemnity. I wasn't a cover-girl type.
It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
How would Jonathan Lethem have obtained such a stellar endorsement for 'The Fortress of Solitude' from Michael Chabon, if not for the years they spent ghostwriting 'MAD' magazine fold-ins together?
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.
My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'.
Solitude is un-American.
