“There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.”
Tom Hanks
“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
“Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.”
Dag Hammarskjold
“Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.”
Thomas Wolfe
