Solitude Quotes

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

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"I could not belong to those who were not outcasts."
Mary Shelley
"In solitude, we discover our true selves."
Mary Shelley
"Loneliness is the price of being different."
Mary Shelley
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"Solitude reveals who we truly are when no one is watching."
Alexandre Dumas
"Every man has in his heart a private dungeon."
Gustave Flaubert
"In the end, everyone is weird, and most people are alone."
Gustave Flaubert
"No one understands another's sorrow, and no one should try."
Gustave Flaubert
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"Solitude is a divine remedy, better than any earthly medicine."
Honoré de Balzac
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"In the silence of solitude, the soul speaks most clearly."
Honoré de Balzac
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"The solitary soul finds peace in the acceptance of loneliness."
Honoré de Balzac
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"In solitude, we discover who we are when no one else is watching."
Honoré de Balzac
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"A solitary eagle is absolutely alone."
John Keats
"Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition."
William Wordsworth
"In silence, the soul finds its true voice."
William Wordsworth
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"A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"The heart's strongest voice is often silence."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Solitude is the birthplace of all great thoughts."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods"
Lord Byron
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"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods"
Lord Byron
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"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, a rapture on the shore"
Lord Byron
"I prefer the company of the dead to the deceits of the living."
Mary Shelley
"Even if I am alone, I shall be satisfied."
Mary Shelley
"In solitude, we find the truth of ourselves."
Mary Shelley
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"When a man is prey to melancholy, he should avoid being alone."
Victor Hugo
"I am not at all in a humour for talking. Go away!"
Jane Austen
"I cannot make speeches. If you will be so good as to say nothing, perhaps it will be the most agreeable thing you can do."
Jane Austen
"I do not want to talk about it."
Jane Austen
"The silence of the mountains speaks louder than a thousand voices."
William Wordsworth
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"In solitude, we find freedom from the chains of society."
Lord Byron
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"In solitude, the heart speaks most truthfully."
Lord Byron