Solitude Quotes

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

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"Solitude is where the soul finally listens to itself."
Lord Byron
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"Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Solitude is the nurse of all true greatness."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your Loveliness and the hour of my death."
John Keats
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"My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk."
John Keats
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"I long for the time of undisturbed Leisure."
John Keats
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"Solitude sometimes is best society."
John Milton
"Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self."
William Wordsworth
"In quiet moments, we hear the voice of our deepest self."
William Wordsworth
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"In solitude, where we are least alone."
Lord Byron
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"There is a strength in solitude that cannot be found in company."
Lord Byron
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"I love the night, when all is quiet and the soul can speak."
Lord Byron
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"Silence is also speech."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"The heart is a lonely hunter."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Solitude sometimes is best society, and short retirement urges sweet return."
John Milton
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"The silence of solitude speaks louder than the noise of crowds."
John Milton
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"The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window are my children."
John Keats
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"I have lost my place in society and I do not wish to find it again."
Lord Byron
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"I have not loved the world, nor the world me."
Lord Byron
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"Solitude is the sanctuary where the mind finds its own truth."
Dante Alighieri
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"Solitude is not loneliness; it is the company of oneself."
Dante Alighieri
"Solitude is the best nurse of the wise; madness is the child of company."
William Wordsworth
"In solitude, the noise of the world fades, and we hear at last the still, small voice within."
William Wordsworth
"Ther was noon other incumpaignye."
Geoffrey Chaucer
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"The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"Solitude sometimes is best society."
John Milton
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"Creation sleeps; I wake: there are but I and my Creator."
John Milton
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"In the deepest solitude is found the deepest connection."
John Milton
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"The man who would be fully employed in body must be idle in mind."
Ovid