“Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It 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
“Solitude is not a group activity.”
Richard 'Grimesy' Grimes
“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.”
“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
“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
“Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.”
Thomas Wolfe
