I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.

-- Oscar Wilde

I like it where it gets dark at night, and if you want noise, you have to make it yourself.

-- H. Beam Piper

... quiet had set in and all the human beings had turned to clay

The terrain was as flat as a roof.

I opened a vent and fresh air (daylight!) fell upon the side of
my nose.

I fell to my knees and sat weeping, tears streaming down the side of my nose.

-- Epic of Gilgamesh

'The Example'
Here’s an example from
A Butterfly;
That on a rough, hard rock
Happy can lie;
Friendless and all alone
On this unsweetened stone.
Now let my bed be hard
No care take I;
I’ll make my joy like this
Small Butterfly;
Whose happy heart has power
To make a stone a flower.
-- W. H. Davies

...
From the thunder, and the storm—
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view
- Edgar Allen Poe

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with It as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.
- George Eliot

In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone. - Carson McCullers

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
- Euripides

Just knowing you don't have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiveness, and an eagerness to learn - and those are all good things.
- Dick Van Dyke

None of this is real. All of this is an illusion and your acceptance of that fact is the beginning of the pathway to self-knowledge.
- Frederick Lenz

My offered gift

Nothing to wish you.
Nothing to lose.
Nothing to view.
Nothing to choose.

Nothing to ponder.
Nothing to sneer.
Nothing to squander.
Nothing to cheer.

Nothing to say today.
Nothing to add.
Nothing to take away.
Nothing too sad.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
- Anne Frank