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