„With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.“

„After all this kind of fanfare, and even more, I came to a point where I needed solitude and to just stop the machine of 'thinking' and 'enjoying' what they call 'living,' I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds…“

—  Jack Kerouac, книга Lonesome Traveler

Вариант: I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.
Источник: Lonesome Traveler

„Happiness is in the quiet, ordinary things. A table, a chair, a book with a paper-knife stuck between the pages. And the petal falling from the rose, and the light flickering as we sit silent.“

—  Virginia Woolf, книга The Waves

Источник: The Waves

„I was looking at my furniture, not as the utilitarian who has to sit on chairs, to write at desks and tables, and not as the cameraman or scientific recorder, but as the pure aesthete whose concern is only with forms and their relationships within the field of vision or the picture space. But as I looked, this purely aesthetic, Cubist's-eye view gave place to what I can only describe as the sacramental vision of reality. I was back where I had been when I was looking at the flowers—back in a world where everything shone with the Inner Light, and was infinite in its significance.“

—  Aldous Huxley, книга The Doors of Perception

describing his experiment with mescaline, p. 22
The Doors of Perception (1954)

„Both looked back then on the wild revelry… and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude.“

—  Gabriel García Márquez Colombian writer 1927 - 2014

„The materials of the first temple were made ready in solitude. Those of the last also must be shaped in retirement; in the silence of the heart; in the quietness of home; in the practice of unostentatious duty.“

—  Henry Giles Irish minister 1809 - 1882

Источник: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 45.

„O you had loved her sitting there,
Half hidden in her loosen'd hair:
Why, you had loved her for her eyes,
Their large and melancholy look
Of tenderness, and well mistook
Their love for light of Paradise.“

—  Joaquin Miller American judge 1837 - 1913

IV, p. 27.
The Ship in the Desert (1875)

„Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.“

—  Milan Kundera Czech author of Czech and French literature 1929

„This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.“

—  Elizabeth Gilbert, книга Eat, Pray, Love

Источник: Eat, Pray, Love

„But two miles more, and then we rest!
Well, there is still an hour of day,
And long the brightness of the West
Will light us on our devious way;
Sit then, awhile, here in this wood—
So total is the solitude,
We safely may delay.“

—  Charlotte Brontë, книга Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell (1846), The Wood (1846)

„The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain.“

—  Rainer Maria Rilke, книга Letters to a Young Poet

Вариант: What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours—that is what you must be able to attain.
Источник: Letters to a Young Poet

„The blind man sits in the dark, but for guests he turns on the light.“

—  Avner Strauss Israeli musician 1954

12 Years Before Now, In Jerusalem, the Skies are Lower (1991).

„I have found nothing half so good
As my long-planned half solitude,
Where I can sit up half the night
With some friend that has the wit
Not to allow his looks to tell
When I am unintelligible.“

—  W.B. Yeats Irish poet and playwright 1865 - 1939

The Apparitions, st. 2
Last Poems (1936-1939)

„Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn.“

—  Leo Tolstoy Russian writer 1828 - 1910

„Your modern methods of communication are in fact modeled after your inner ones.“

—  Jane Roberts American Writer 1929 - 1984

Session 932, Page 456
Dreams, Evolution and Value Fulfillment, Volume Two (1986)

„It's practically my subject, my theme: solitude and community; the weirdness and terrors of solitude: the stifling and consolations of community. Also, the consolations of solitude.“

—  Derek Mahon Poet 1941

Paris Review 154, Spring 2000 http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/732/the-art-of-poetry-no-82-derek-mahon

„A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. His auditors are as men entranced by the melody of an unseen musician.“

—  Percy Bysshe Shelley English Romantic poet 1792 - 1822

A Defence of Poetry http://www.bartleby.com/27/23.html (1821)

„Her body moved with the frankness that comes from solitary habits. But solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot; every choice is a world made new for the chosen. All secrets are witnessed.“

—  Barbara Kingsolver, книга Prodigal Summer

Источник: Prodigal Summer (2000).

„Let's not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.“

—  Boris Yeltsin 1st President of Russia and Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR 1931 - 2007

Comment during a visit to the United States, as quoted in The Independent [London] (12 September 1989)
1980s

„Absence! is not the soul torn by it
From more than light, or life, or breath?
'Tis Lethe's gloom, but not its quiet,—
The pain without the peace of death!“

—  Thomas Campbell British writer 1777 - 1844

"Absence", The poetical works of Thomas Campbell (1837)