Solitude Quotes

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

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"We are all exiles in the land of our birth."
Nikolai Gogol
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"We are all strangers to ourselves."
Nikolai Gogol
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"Every person has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone"
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"The soul of another is darkness"
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Solitude teaches us things that society cannot."
Maxim Gorky
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"Solitude is not loneliness; it is the opportunity to reconnect with oneself."
Maxim Gorky
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"Solitude is not loneliness but communion with oneself."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Solitude is where the soul finds its truest voice."
Ivan Turgenev
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"In solitude, we discover who we truly are."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"In solitude, the noise of the world finally ceases."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"There is something noble in solitude, but nothing noble in loneliness."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"We are all exiles from a home we cannot remember."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"In solitude, we meet our truest selves and our deepest doubts."
Nikolai Gogol
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"Solitude is not loneliness but communion with oneself and the divine."
Nikolai Gogol
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"Loneliness is when someone doesn't care about your silence."
Anton Chekhov
"The only way out is in."
Samuel Beckett
"There are worse things than being alone."
Samuel Beckett
"We are trapped in our own minds."
Samuel Beckett
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"A man is his own most constant companion."
Leo Tolstoy
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"I want to gather around me a few people who would understand me."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Solitude is where one discovers oneself."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Solitude is the breeding ground of genius."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"To be alone is not to be lonely; it is to be free."
Aleksandr Pushkin
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"Solitude is the soil in which genius is born and nurtured."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Solitude is the furnace of transformation."
Ivan Turgenev
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"The heart's winter is colder than any season nature provides."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"I am a stranger to myself, forever chasing my own reflection."
Mikhail Lermontov
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"I prefer the company of books to the treachery of people."
Mikhail Lermontov
"I don't know why I tell you all this. I suppose that's why."
Samuel Beckett
"I know of no image more poignant than that of the solitary human consciousness."
Samuel Beckett