Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
Well, it's true that I've never been solitary, although I spend a lot of time alone. I've never felt lonely or been shy.
The solution to alone-ness is not more solitude, but companionship and community.
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.
Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.
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's a difference between solitude and loneliness.
Solitude is not the same as loneliness. Solitude is a solitary boat floating in a sea of possible companions.