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There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

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

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

The solution to alone-ness is not more solitude, but companionship and community.

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.

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

Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different.

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.

Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.