Solitude Quotes

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

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"The light is fading and I sit alone."
Samuel Beckett
J
"Loneliness is the human condition."
James Joyce
J
"Silence is the deepest form of communication."
James Joyce
J
"Solitude is not isolation but communion with the infinite."
James Joyce
L
"The human spirit breaks in solitude more than anywhere else."
Leo Tolstoy
T
"Silence has depths and richness that speech cannot capture."
Thomas Hardy
T
"Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self."
Thomas Hardy
W
"There is another loneliness that comes from love."
William Butler Yeats
W
"The body is not washed in the waters, the heart is purified in solitude."
William Butler Yeats
W
"The mind that would be alone must cut itself off."
William Butler Yeats
E
"In solitude, I find my greatest strength."
Emily Brontë
E
"Loneliness is a state of mind."
Emily Brontë
O
"I am not at all in a humour for talking. Go away!"
Oscar Wilde
O
"I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly."
Oscar Wilde
O
"Who, if I cried, would hear me among the angelic orders?"
Oscar Wilde
J
"He was alone. He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life."
James Joyce
J
"He sat beside her in the darkness, listening to the rain."
James Joyce
J
"The silence was more terrible than any sound."
James Joyce
J
"In the end we are all alone with our own thoughts."
James Joyce
A
"I wish I could live in solitude and forget the world and be forgotten by it."
Anne Brontë
T
"The strongest person is often the one most capable of enduring loneliness."
Thomas Hardy
T
"Solitude is either a blessing or a curse, depending on the company of your own thoughts."
Thomas Hardy
G
"Feeling is deep and still; and silence is the corona of its divinity."
George Eliot
E
"I'm happiest when most away from the throng."
Emily Brontë
E
"Solitude is either a sanctuary or a prison, depending on the heart that inhabits it."
Emily Brontë
W
"The heart knoweth its own bitterness; and a stranger intermeddeth not with its joy."
William Butler Yeats
W
"The bitterness of the divided self."
William Butler Yeats
C
"Loneliness is my least favorite thing about existence. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for."
Charlotte Brontë
O
"I prefer the company of peasants because they do not read the newspapers."
Oscar Wilde
A
"I wish I could live in solitude always."
Anne Brontë