Solitude Quotes
The difference between being alone and being lonely. Quotes about the richness of your own company.
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"Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine."Anatole France
"The writer's true wealth is solitude."Marcel Proust
"Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition."Marcel Proust
"Solitude is the furnace of transformation."Romain Rolland
"Solitude is where the soul speaks to itself."Romain Rolland
"Never am I less at leisure than when at leisure."André Gide
"Solitude is where one discovers oneself."Denis Diderot
"We are always alone, even in company."Jean-Paul Sartre
"Loneliness is different from solitude; one is chosen, the other is imposed."Simone de Beauvoir
"I prefer to hear myself speak without being heard by others."André Gide
"The minute we cease to be in love, we grow lonely, even if surrounded by people."Marcel Proust
"The night is our ally in solitude and thought."Marcel Proust
"In solitude we find ourselves; in company we find others."Marcel Proust
"Solitude is necessary for creativity."Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."Albert Camus
"The man who says he has not been silent has not truly lived."Albert Camus
"Solitude is necessary for understanding oneself authentically."Jean-Paul Sartre
"Loneliness is not the same as solitude; solitude is chosen, while loneliness is imposed."Simone de Beauvoir
"My thoughts are my company."Denis Diderot
"Solitude teaches what society cannot."Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"In solitude, we discover who we truly are."Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"I have always preferred the company of plants and animals to that of people."André Gide
"I am not made for any one place; my roots grow downward everywhere."André Gide
"I prefer to believe that my silence is the best language in which to express myself."André Gide
"We are rarely proud when we are alone."Voltaire
"In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."Albert Camus
"Solitude is the only place where we meet ourselves truly."Albert Camus
"We live as though we are spectators of our own lives."Jean-Paul Sartre
"Radical solitude is the price of freedom."Jean-Paul Sartre
"Solitude nourishes the soul, but too much makes it melancholy."Montesquieu