"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
“Again see you not that even stones are conquered by time, that high towers fall and rocks moulder away, that shrines and idols of gods are worn down with decay, and that holy divinity cannot prolong the bounds of fate or struggle against the fixed laws of nature?” ― Lucretius