Solitude Quotes
The difference between being alone and being lonely. Quotes about the richness of your own company.
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"I'm in the world, but not of it."Samuel Beckett
"The night is my kingdom."Samuel Beckett
"Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body."James Joyce
"Lonely men speak to us of lonely things."James Joyce
"In solitude, we find ourselves."Fyodor Dostoevsky
"A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them."Leo Tolstoy
"The soul of another is a dark forest beyond our grasp."Ivan Turgenev
"In solitude we must find our truth."Ivan Turgenev
"Loneliness gives reality to the imagined."William Butler Yeats
"Silence, exile, cunning."Samuel Beckett
"Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self."Samuel Beckett
"I have made a great discovery. I like people much better since I have stopped listening to them."Oscar Wilde
"I keep silent because I have nothing to say."Fyodor Dostoevsky
"In solitude, one discovers one's true nature."Leo Tolstoy
"His very hand that wrote it was not his own, nor his head which thought it."James Joyce
"Her mind lives in a secret place which to no one can belong."James Joyce
"The human condition demands both solitude and connection."James Joyce
"I don't know why I tell you all this."Samuel Beckett
"Loneliness is the only truth."Samuel Beckett
"I do not love anyone, and no one loves me."Samuel Beckett
"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself."Anton Chekhov
"To be truly alone is not a punishment but a privilege."Anton Chekhov
"In solitude the soul grows."George Bernard Shaw
"The man who meditated, the wanderer on the roadside, spoke but little."William Butler Yeats
"A man's silence has many meanings."Thomas Hardy
"Solitude is not loneliness, but communion with oneself."Thomas Hardy
"I am not at all in a humour for talking."Oscar Wilde
"Silence is golden, but talking fills the void."Samuel Beckett
"The most beautiful thing is to be left alone."Samuel Beckett
"Silence is the only answer."Samuel Beckett