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Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

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

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.

Solitude is not the same as loneliness. Solitude is a solitary boat floating in a sea of possible companions.

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.

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is.

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.