Solitude Quotes

The difference between being alone and being lonely. Quotes about the richness of your own company.

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"Solitude teaches us that we are enough unto ourselves."
Dino Buzzati
"In solitude, we either find ourselves or lose ourselves entirely."
Italo Svevo
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"We are all exiles in some form, searching for a home that may no longer exist."
Elsa Morante
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"I prefer reading to talking. And since talk is the only polite form of interruption, silence gathers all the glory of conversation."
Umberto Eco
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"Solitude is a gift, not a curse."
Umberto Eco
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"We are all exiles in our own societies."
Pier Paolo Pasolini
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"Solitude in the presence of others creates a particular anguish."
Primo Levi
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"Solitude is the price we pay for the privilege of thinking our own thoughts."
Elsa Morante
"Solitude reveals what society conceals"
Italo Svevo
"Solitude is where we finally meet ourselves"
Italo Svevo
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"Modern times have made solitude much harder, but also much more necessary."
Cesare Pavese
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"Solitude teaches us what company cannot."
Dino Buzzati
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"Solitude is where we finally meet ourselves."
Dino Buzzati
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"Solitude is where the spirit finds its voice."
Gabriele D'Annunzio
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"Solitude is communion with the infinite."
Gabriele D'Annunzio
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"Solitude is not loneliness, it is communion with oneself"
Umberto Eco
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"Solitude teaches us that we are complete as we are"
Umberto Eco
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"Solitude can be the teacher of wisdom."
Giosue Carducci
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"Solitude nurtures the creative spirit."
Giosue Carducci
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"Solitude is where the soul finds itself."
Gabriele D'Annunzio
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"Solitude can be a sanctuary for the soul."
Giovanni Verga
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"Loneliness is not solitude; know the difference."
Giovanni Verga
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"Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self."
Italo Calvino
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"In solitude, we find ourselves; in connection, we find meaning."
Italo Calvino
"Solitude is not loneliness; it is the company of one's authentic self."
Italo Svevo
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"In solitude, we finally hear our own voice."
Dino Buzzati
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"Solitude is where we meet ourselves without apology."
Dino Buzzati
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"I mirror myself a thousand times."
Luigi Pirandello
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"Each one of us has a private world of experience."
Luigi Pirandello
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"I possess something that makes me sober—my solitude."
Luigi Pirandello