Solitude Quotes

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

14288 quotes

G
"She had discovered that they would never get out because they were predestined to solitude."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
C
"He believed that solitude was the price of greatness."
Colonel Aureliano Buendía
G
"He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
C
"One must accept that life is a lonely business and that we are condemned to die as we were born."
Colonel Aureliano Buendía
C
"Solitude is not always a punishment; sometimes it is the only refuge."
Colonel Aureliano Buendía
L
"I am illiterate in the languages of solitude."
Liesel Meminger
G
"He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
J
"The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude."
José Arcadio Buendía
G
"He was condemned to one hundred years of solitude."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
C
"Solitude is a gift that not everyone can bear."
Circe
C
"Loneliness and solitude are not the same thing."
Circe
G
"He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
M
"Solitude teaches you what matters."
Marie-Laure
C
"Loneliness is a choice, and I had chosen it willingly."
Circe
G
"He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
G
"They were condemned to one hundred years of solitude."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
G
"Loneliness was the privilege of the strong."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
G
"He recognized in her the solitude of his own reflection."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
G
"He departed as he had arrived, carrying nothing but his solitude."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
C
"I learned to live in the shadows of my own making"
Circe
C
"Loneliness is the price of difference"
Circe
C
"I was alone, and I preferred it that way"
Circe
C
"Immortality is a kind of loneliness no one warns you about"
Circe
G
"He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
G
"She was the only one who truly understood the weight of solitude"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
G
"In the end, we are all servants of our own loneliness"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
G
"In solitude, we find both ourselves and our destruction"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
O
"A man who has worked hard all his life has earned the right to be left alone."
Ove
O
"A man's home is his castle, and every castle needs a moat."
Ove
C
"Loneliness is the price of being different"
Circe