Solitude Quotes

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

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"We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, and if I begin to be satisfied with my own society, certainly I should reject company."
Mr. Darcy
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"I am not at all in a humour for talking."
Heathcliff
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"The permanent constitutional condition of the manufactured man is solitariness."
Ishmael
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"I stand alone upon this vast, mild ocean."
Ishmael
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"I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me"
Sydney Carton
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"The more solitary, the more friendless I am, the more I will respect myself."
Jane Eyre
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"I am a disappointed drudge, sir. I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me"
Sydney Carton
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"I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me"
Madame Defarge
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"I have grown to love secrecy."
Dorian Gray
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"I have lost the faculty of enjoying their company."
Heathcliff
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"We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, and shall be the better pleased with the solitude of each other."
Mr. Darcy
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"I feel as a lost soul upon an unfathomed waste and solitude"
Ishmael
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"I stand alone here upon the sea"
Ishmael
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"The night is dark and I am far from home"
The Narrator
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"I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me"
Sydney Carton
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"I have grown to love secrecy."
Dorian Gray
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"I stand alone here upon an open sea."
Captain Ahab
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"I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me."
Sydney Carton
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"The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can love."
Jane Eyre
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"Comfort, I pray thee, with thine own phantom!"
Arthur Dimmesdale
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"Loneliness is the poverty of the spirit."
Pip
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"Beneath the radiance of an aurora borealis, I seemed almost to possess a gun that was not mine."
Ishmael
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"I have a great deal of time for thinking in my present monotonous existence."
Pip
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"I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to us."
Dorian Gray
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"Alone I not fear to chamber with thoughts."
Jane Eyre
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"I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me"
Sydney Carton
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"I am alone in the world—and Pearl is with me!"
Hester Prynne
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"I am not at all in humour for talking. Go away!"
Elizabeth Bennet
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"I am a disappointed drudge, sir. I care for no man on earth, and no man on earth cares for me"
Sydney Carton
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"There never was, and never will be, any reason for my marrying anybody"
Sydney Carton