Solitude Quotes

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

14288 quotes

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"Loneliness exists even in crowds."
Anna Karenina
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"Solitude is the furnace of transformation."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
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"I have resolved never to open my heart to any one."
Monte Cristo
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"Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
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"Solitude is the mother of contemplation"
Don Quixote
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"I became aware that my presence tended to put an end to the evening."
Nick Carraway
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"In the end, we are all alone."
Nick Carraway
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"Solitude is the nurse of genius."
Abbé Faria
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"She had spent her life running from herself"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"I was within and without."
Nick Carraway
R
"The greatest suffering is loneliness."
Raskolnikov
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"She had become a stranger to her own life."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"She had always been a stranger in her own life."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"The loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly at the distance."
Jay Gatsby
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"At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes."
Nick Carraway
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"I have made up my mind to say nothing more to you."
Raskolnikov
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"The loneliness of the soul is unbearable; it makes men cruel."
Nick Carraway
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"The soul of another is a mystery that cannot be penetrated by force."
Ivan Karamazov
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"She sought in others what she lacked within herself."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
J
"In the silence of solitude, we find ourselves."
Jean Valjean
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"Loneliness is the poverty of self"
Monte Cristo
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"I wanted to have a private life and a private place to cry."
Atticus Finch
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"The soul withers in towns where nothing ever changes."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Solitude teaches us who we truly are."
Monte Cristo
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"Grief must be borne alone."
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
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"Solitude teaches what companionship cannot."
Edmond Dantès
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"I am utterly alone."
Raskolnikov
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"So it had come to this, and he knew how little it mattered to anyone at all."
Nick Carraway
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"I have nothing to do with the common world."
Raskolnikov
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"Solitude is sometimes the best society."
Pierre Bezukhov