Solitude Quotes

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

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"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
Mark Twain
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"The ocean teaches us that vastness and loneliness are often inseparable."
Herman Melville
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"Solitude is not loneliness; it is communion with one's truest self."
Herman Melville
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"To be truly alone is to be most fully alive."
Herman Melville
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"How little do we know about the thoughts and feelings of anyone!"
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"Once upon a time, there was a man who could not escape his own mind."
Edgar Allan Poe
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"Saying nothing sometimes says the most."
Emily Dickinson
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"Me from Myself to banish were a peculiar pain."
Emily Dickinson
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"Precious is a trifle solitude."
Emily Dickinson
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"The Loneliness One dare not sound is the most profound."
Emily Dickinson
"Loneliness is the poverty of self."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Solitude is where creativity thrives."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"Loneliness is a form of clarity."
Henry James
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"Solitude is where the soul finds peace."
François Mauriac
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"Loneliness is the poverty of the soul."
François Mauriac
"Do not underestimate the value of doing nothing."
Mark Twain
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"We are all fools and knaves if we do not keep a certain distance from the world."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"To be alone is not the same as being lonely."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"The intense concentration of self in the middle of vast surroundings impresses us with a sense of the world's vastness."
Herman Melville
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"There is much worth in solitude when solitude is the choice of one's nature."
Herman Melville
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"To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others."
Anatole France
"Solitude is the natural state, and society the disease."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Loneliness is not a condition; it is the truth."
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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"Solitude is where the soul speaks its truest language."
François Mauriac
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"I am afraid to own a Body I elect to my Society."
Emily Dickinson
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"I hide myself within my Flower that Fades and falls away."
Emily Dickinson
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"Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self."
Henry James
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"The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love."
Henry James
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"The greatest luxury is solitude."
Henry James
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"But I felt as if I had been wandering in some endless, aimless, purposeless realm."
Herman Melville