Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance.
'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination. From the very beginning we know the town of Macondo will endure only a century, so there is a limit to the length of the narrative.
One can't live in solitude. To survive as a single family unit is not possible.
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude.
The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, but God to man doth speak in solitude.
Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone. Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves; that firm strand which will be the indispensable center of a whole web of human relationships.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
You can't write an image, a metaphor, a story, a phrase, without leaning a little further into the shared world, without recognizing that your supposed solitude is at every point of its perimeter touching some other.
Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.
When you have a lot of solitude, any living thing becomes a companion.
I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
