Solitude Quotes

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

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"But I'm not going to tell you about it."
J.D. Salinger
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"It's my nature to be alone."
J.D. Salinger
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"I prefer loneliness to false company."
J.D. Salinger
J
"Solitude teaches us who we truly are."
Joseph Heller
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"Solitude is loneliness only when we feel we don't belong."
Joseph Heller
"A life of purely private meaning is not entirely admissible in the modern world."
Philip Roth
"We are all, in a sense, orphans in the modern world."
Philip Roth
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"There is a particular kind of loneliness that comes from being surrounded by people."
Norman Mailer
"Human beings will be happier, not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice, but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again."
Kurt Vonnegut
"Loneliness is the universal condition of modern life."
David Foster Wallace
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"The main thing is that inner life is the real life."
Saul Bellow
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"The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love."
Saul Bellow
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"Solitude is the best classroom if you're willing to listen."
Joseph Heller
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"Solitude teaches what no crowd ever could."
Joseph Heller
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"Solitude is the remedy for all ills."
Norman Mailer
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"Some people are just meant to be alone in this world, I think."
J.D. Salinger
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"Nothing to do with this world."
William S. Burroughs
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"I prefer to go mad among others rather than go sane alone."
William S. Burroughs
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"I don't want to see you here anymore."
William S. Burroughs
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"These were my only thoughts"
Allen Ginsberg
"We are lonesome animals. We spend all our time trying to be less lonesome."
Kurt Vonnegut
"There are not many people to talk to, whatever you do."
Kurt Vonnegut
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"At night when everybody's sleeping, I go out and make my solo journeys and experience what I like to experience."
Jack Kerouac
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"Solitude is misery for those who cannot be alone."
Joseph Heller
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"I prefer the company of animals to people."
William S. Burroughs
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"The depth of life is found in stillness, not in constant motion."
Norman Mailer
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"Solitude is not loneliness; it is the necessary space where the soul grows."
Norman Mailer
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"I'm always saying goodbye to people I don't even want to say hello to."
J.D. Salinger
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"What I'm trying to say is there are times when you really don't want to be alone."
J.D. Salinger
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"What I mean is, sometimes you just feel like disappearing."
J.D. Salinger