"My feeling is that as far as creativity is concerned, isolation is required. The creative person is, in any case, con…"

"Perfect solitude is when, for a whole day, no human eye has beheld your face."

"He who professes a firm faith, although in solitude, is not alone."

"R. Hanina said: One may not sleep in a house alone [in a lonely house], and whoever sleeps in a house alone is seized…"

"Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god."

"little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth; for a crowd is not company, and faces are but a ga…"

"La solitude, c'est le vide ; et la nature morale en a tout autant d'horreur que la nature physique. La solitude n'est…"

"He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts."

"Alone, adj. In bad company."

"While God created Adam, who was alone, He said, 'It is not good for man to be alone. He also created a woman, from th…"