“For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and most beautiful of all.” -Isabelle Eberhardt

“I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said 'I want to be let alone!' There is all the difference.” -Greta Garbo

“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if hes does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.” -Arthur Schopenhauer

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.” -Michel de Montaigne

“I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don't get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next." -Henry David Thoreau

“Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.” -Rollo May

“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.” -May Sarton

“To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.” -Anthony Burgess

“Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.” Thomas Mann