Solitude Quotes
The difference between being alone and being lonely. Quotes about the richness of your own company.
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"What I really need is to be alone for a while."J.D. Salinger
"Give up the will to be right and live in peace"Allen Ginsberg
"Solitude is not loneliness, it is communion with oneself"Allen Ginsberg
"Silence can be your greatest ally or your worst enemy."William S. Burroughs
"The strongest minds are often the loneliest."William S. Burroughs
"Solitude teaches us to know ourselves."William Carlos Williams
"For the moment I said nothing and just looked out the window and contemplated the city ahead of me."Jack Kerouac
"The night knows all secrets."Jack Kerouac
"The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to"e.e. cummings
"I am the bottom of the sea's confession."Hart Crane
"Solitude nourishes the soul."Hart Crane
"Every living thing is lonely. That's just what living is."Kurt Vonnegut
"I'm standing in the shadows at the end of the lane."J.D. Salinger
"Loneliness and solitude are not the same; one is imposed, the other chosen."William Carlos Williams
"Silence is not empty it is full of sounds we haven't learned to hear"Allen Ginsberg
"Solitude is necessary for the soul to hear its own voice"Allen Ginsberg
"Each man within himself is an entire world."Wallace Stevens
"In thinking of the snow, I think of myself."Wallace Stevens
"The relation between the public and the private."Wallace Stevens
"I had nothing to do but wait and become sad."Jack Kerouac
"I am the only one who understands my own sadness."Jack Kerouac
"The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence."Marianne Moore
"The cure for loneliness is solitude."Marianne Moore
"One's own company is the best company."Marianne Moore
"To be alone is not to be lonely unless one makes it so."Hart Crane
"Solitude is necessary for the soul's growth."Hart Crane
"Solitude is necessary for the soul."Hilda Doolittle
"Solitude is the cradle of creativity."Hilda Doolittle
"How niceāto feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."Kurt Vonnegut
"Much can be said in favor of the virtue of silence."William Carlos Williams