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
"Loneliness is the human condition."James Joyce
"Silence is the deepest form of communication."James Joyce
"Solitude is not isolation but communion with the infinite."James Joyce
"The human spirit breaks in solitude more than anywhere else."Leo Tolstoy
"Silence has depths and richness that speech cannot capture."Thomas Hardy
"Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self."Thomas Hardy
"There is another loneliness that comes from love."William Butler Yeats
"The body is not washed in the waters, the heart is purified in solitude."William Butler Yeats
"The mind that would be alone must cut itself off."William Butler Yeats
"In solitude, I find my greatest strength."Emily Brontë
"Loneliness is a state of mind."Emily Brontë
"I am not at all in a humour for talking. Go away!"Oscar Wilde
"I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly."Oscar Wilde
"Who, if I cried, would hear me among the angelic orders?"Oscar Wilde
"He was alone. He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life."James Joyce
"He sat beside her in the darkness, listening to the rain."James Joyce
"The silence was more terrible than any sound."James Joyce
"In the end we are all alone with our own thoughts."James Joyce
"I wish I could live in solitude and forget the world and be forgotten by it."Anne Brontë
"The strongest person is often the one most capable of enduring loneliness."Thomas Hardy
"Solitude is either a blessing or a curse, depending on the company of your own thoughts."Thomas Hardy
"Feeling is deep and still; and silence is the corona of its divinity."George Eliot
"I'm happiest when most away from the throng."Emily Brontë
"Solitude is either a sanctuary or a prison, depending on the heart that inhabits it."Emily Brontë
"The heart knoweth its own bitterness; and a stranger intermeddeth not with its joy."William Butler Yeats
"The bitterness of the divided self."William Butler Yeats
"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
"I prefer the company of peasants because they do not read the newspapers."Oscar Wilde
"I wish I could live in solitude always."Anne Brontë