Loneliness vs. Solitude

• Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone. — Paul Tillich, theologian
• Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for. — Dag Hammarskjöld, Diaries
• If you would live innocently, seek solitude. — Publilius Syrus, Moral Sayings
• To be an adult is to be alone. — Jean Rostand, Thoughts of a Biologist
• The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude. — Voltaire, letter to Frederick the Great, Aug. 1751