Solitude Quotes

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

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"I had to learn to be alone with myself."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
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"The window is small, too high up for me to see much."
Offred
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"I laid in the grass and had a good long think."
Huckleberry Finn
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"I stand in front of the store window and watch my reflection move."
Offred
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"The night is mine, my own time, to do with as I will."
Offred
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"In the silence, she heard only her own breathing."
Briony Tallis
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"He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"He had the look of someone who has been in solitude too long."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"Solitude was the only honest inheritance of the Buendías."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"I sit in the bitter air like a stone"
Offred
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"She carried her loneliness like a stone in her pocket."
The Narrator (omniscient)
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"He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"She had become so familiar with solitude that it had become invisible to her"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"We are all condemned to solitude from birth until death"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"Solitude became her natural state."
Briony Tallis
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"He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
"The secret of a good old age is simply an honest pact with solitude."
Úrsula Iguarán
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"They were condemned to one hundred years of solitude."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"He carried his solitude like a wound that would never heal."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"The only thing worse than solitude is the company of those who cannot tolerate it."
Florentino Ariza
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"There is something about that silence that feels lonely."
Werner
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"Silence can be deafening."
Marie-Laure
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"He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"One thing they all had in common was that they were doomed to solitude."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"Loneliness was not something she had discovered recently."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"One can only be understood by those who share one's own solitude."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"We long for connection even in isolation."
Werner
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"He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)