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