Solitude Quotes

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

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"Being alive is itself a lonely act."
Eudora Welty
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"Loneliness and solitude are not the same thing."
Eudora Welty
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"Solitude teaches what society cannot: the nature of your own being."
Joyce Carol Oates
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"Solitude should be a choice, not a punishment."
Joyce Carol Oates
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"Writing is the most solitary of all professions, and yet one that links you to humanity."
Harper Lee
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"Loneliness and solitude are not the same thing, though they often walk together."
Harper Lee
"We're all lonely for something we're not sure we are."
David Foster Wallace
"We are such lonely creatures and we do not even know it."
David Foster Wallace
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"The life of a human being, I think, is a lonely thing. It's a solitary trip."
Saul Bellow
"Solitude teaches you who you really are without witnesses."
Cormac McCarthy
"A writer has to get used to loneliness."
Philip Roth
"The only authentic thing is the solitary voice."
Philip Roth
"We are all of us lonely. But are we willing to admit it, and then do something about it?"
Carson McCullers
"A person has to resign himself to the fact that loneliness is a fundamental human experience."
Carson McCullers
"Solitude is not loneliness; it is the space where we meet ourselves."
Carson McCullers
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"In solitude we discover who we truly are."
Eudora Welty
"The silence between words contains more meaning than the words themselves."
Cormac McCarthy
"We're all lonely in our own way."
David Foster Wallace
"You will be lonely sometimes, and that's okay."
David Foster Wallace
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"Solitude is not loneliness; it is the company of oneself."
Norman Mailer
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"Solitude is a gift we give ourselves."
Joseph Heller
"Solitude is not loneliness. It is the company of oneself."
Cormac McCarthy
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"The nature of our society is such that the individual in it is essentially alone."
Flannery O'Connor
"We're all lonely for something we're not sure we even want."
David Foster Wallace
"The loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart."
David Foster Wallace
"Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the wealth of self."
David Foster Wallace
"To be human is to be lonely, and to be lonely is to be human."
David Foster Wallace
"We're all trapped in our own subjectivity, which is the fundamental tragedy of being conscious."
David Foster Wallace
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"To be alone is not the same as being lonely, though we confuse them constantly."
Saul Bellow
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"I'd just as soon not tell you about it."
J.D. Salinger