Solitude Quotes

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

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"The worst misery is being alone."
Gustave Flaubert
"Whatever is deep is also solitary."
Gustave Flaubert
"In solitude we find ourselves; in society we lose ourselves."
Gustave Flaubert
"In solitude, one discovers the truth about oneself."
Émile Zola
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"Solitude can be either a sanctuary or a prison."
Alexandre Dumas
A
"Solitude without loneliness is a blessed state."
Alexandre Dumas
"I have learned to love solitude."
Mary Shelley
"How cold is night when one is alone!"
Mary Shelley
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"Loneliness is a bitter poverty."
Charlotte Brontë
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"Solitude can be either a blessing or a curse."
Charlotte Brontë
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"Life has taught me this: you can count on the fingers of one hand the number of people who truly understand you."
Charles Dickens
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"Loneliness is the poverty of self, solitude is the richness of self."
Charles Dickens
"In solitude, one discovers truths that society works hard to conceal."
Émile Zola
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"All misery comes from the fact that we are never alone with our demons."
Honoré de Balzac
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"In solitude one discovers truths that society keeps hidden."
Honoré de Balzac
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"Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell solitude is fine."
Victor Hugo
"One should spend their solitude in contemplation, not in idleness."
Gustave Flaubert
"In solitude, we find the echoes of our true selves."
Gustave Flaubert
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"Solitude can be a sanctuary where the soul finds its truest voice."
Alexandre Dumas
"I love the secrecy of the night."
Mary Shelley
"The greatest luxury is solitude."
Mary Shelley
"In darkness, we discover our true selves."
Mary Shelley
"In solitude, we meet our truest selves."
Émile Zola
"Solitude is where the soul recognizes itself."
Émile Zola
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"My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven"
John Keats
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"Solitude is the school of genius."
Honoré de Balzac
"Solitude is not loneliness, but communion with oneself."
William Wordsworth
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"The human heart has hidden treasures, in secret kept, in silence sealed."
Victor Hugo
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"Solitude is the furnace of transformation."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Solitude feeds the creative spirit."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge