Solitude Quotes
The difference between being alone and being lonely. Quotes about the richness of your own company.
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"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not."Washington Irving
"Solitude offers the gift of communion with our own deepest thoughts."Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Solitude, rightly employed, is the crucible of the soul."James Fenimore Cooper
"The longest journey is often inward, toward understanding ourselves."James Fenimore Cooper
"Solitude is necessary to genius."Edgar Allan Poe
"I am but a ghost among you, observing your follies with detached sympathy."Edgar Allan Poe
"There is often a pit of lonesomeness opening before us, mid pleasures of the greatest kind."Willa Cather
"Solitude is often the best medicine for a troubled heart."Louisa May Alcott
"I have learned to value my own company."Louisa May Alcott
"I am not a bit in a humour for talking; please don't oblige me to it."Harriet Beecher Stowe
"In the wilderness, a man discovers not just the world, but his own true self."James Fenimore Cooper
"In solitude, we meet ourselves most honestly."James Fenimore Cooper
"In solitude a man learns his own name."Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is a certain magic in solitude that restores the weary spirit."Washington Irving
"Solitude is not loneliness; it is the company of one's truest self in contemplation and peace."Washington Irving
"I am Nobody. Who are you?"Emily Dickinson
"There is another Loneliness that many die without."Emily Dickinson
"The Lonesome place against the Sky."Emily Dickinson
"Solitude is not the absence of companionship but the presence of oneself."Edgar Allan Poe
"Solitude is where the soul communes with itself."Edgar Allan Poe
"You will hardly know who I am or what I mean."Walt Whitman
"The profoundest silence is something to hear."Herman Melville
"The most intimate of things remain secret."Herman Melville
"In the quiet of solitude, one finds one's truest self."James Fenimore Cooper
"In solitude, one discovers the company of one's own thoughts."Edgar Allan Poe
"I dwell in a palace of shadows and echoes."Edgar Allan Poe
"I have learned to love the loneliness that makes me whole."Edgar Allan Poe
"There is another loneliness that is almost an appetite."Emily Dickinson
"Solitude teaches us that we are never truly alone."Emily Dickinson
"Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom; conversation, of eloquence."Washington Irving