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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

Man is alone everywhere. But the solitude of the Mexican, under the great stone night of the high plateau that is still inhabited by insatiable gods, is very different from that of the North American, who wanders in an abstract world of machines, fellow citizens and moral precepts.

Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, but God to man doth speak in solitude.

Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you.