“The beauty of being comfortable in solitude is when we connect to someone deeply in our thoughts. That is when loneliness becomes solitude.”
Ascetic Angel
“Solitude is not a group activity.”
Richard 'Grimesy' Grimes
“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.”
May Sarton
“To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.”
Anna Louise Strong
“Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.”
Paul Tillich
“Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.”
Thomas Wolfe
“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
