Solitude Quotes

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

14288 quotes

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"For whom, it suddenly occurred to him to wonder, was he writing this diary?"
Winston Smith
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"We are lonely only when we choose to be lonely."
Samuel Hamilton
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"I'm going off by myself."
Jack Merridew
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"We live as we dream—alone."
Marlow
M
"I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow."
Marlow
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"Solitude teaches what society cannot"
Pierre Bezukhov
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"We live as we dream—alone"
Marlow
M
"I think it is the knowledge of this fact that gives to us the superiority it has—there is not a single voice, not a single opinion to come to our aid"
Marlow
P
"Do not despise your loneliness; it may be your greatest blessing"
Pierre Bezukhov
M
"We live as we dream—alone"
Marlow
M
"We live as we dream—alone"
Marlow
T
"I am alone and miserable; man will not associate with me."
The Creature
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"I am not fit for society."
The Creature
T
"I am content with solitude and contemplation."
The Creature
M
"We live as we dream—alone."
Marlow
M
"You can't understand. How could you?"
Marlow
T
"I am alone and miserable; man will not associate with me"
The Creature
M
"We live as we dream—alone."
Marlow
M
"He was just a word for me."
Marlow
Y
"Everybody's got a home except me."
Yossarian
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"Solitude can be both refuge and prison."
Jonathan Harker
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"Some of the things I think about only come to me when I'm alone."
Yossarian
M
"We live as we dream—alone."
Marlow
M
"I did not see him for several days after that."
Marlow
M
"The silence of that place was deafening."
Marlow
T
"My vices are the children of a forced solitude that I abhor; and they are made the bars of my prison."
The Creature
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"I felt like a passenger among merchants"
Marlow
M
"The silence was oppressive and seemed to have a weight of its own"
Marlow
M
"We live as we dream—alone"
Marlow
M
"Loneliness is a terrible scourge of the soul."
Mina Murray