The difference between solitude and loneliness is the quality of the company we keep.
When I fancied that I stood alone I was really in the ridiculous position of being backed up by all of Christendom.
Orthodoxy, G K Chesterton
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? George Eliot
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.--Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)_Reflections_ [1974], #196
Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named, not good. John Milton (1608-1674)
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. Joseph Fort Newton (1878-1949)
Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.
George Santayana
Loneliness is the most terrible poverty. - Mother Teresa
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
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