Solitude Quotes

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

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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 family was cursed to solitude from the beginning."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"He sat with his elbows on his knees and studied the fire"
Kid
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"Everyone is lonely sometimes."
Marianne Sheridan
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"I learned that isolation could be a choice, not a punishment."
Circe
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"I learned to find peace in my own company."
Circe
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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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"They were doomed to one hundred years of solitude."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"She was like a cathedral of loneliness, inviolable and immense."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"I am not entirely alone here."
Piranesi
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"There is a particular loneliness in being a god among mortals"
Circe
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"In my exile, I found myself"
Circe
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"I learned that loneliness and solitude are not the same"
Circe
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"I am alone, but I am not lonely"
Circe
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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 fact is we are cursed to one hundred years of solitude"
Melquiades
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"The house was still there, exact and solitary"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"The solitude of the living was a different kind of solitude than that of the dead"
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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"I learned that I could be alone and still be whole"
Circe
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"Loneliness is not the same as solitude"
Circe
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"Loneliness is a disease of the gods."
Circe
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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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"They were so isolated from the rest of the world that their existence had become fantastical."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"He discovered that solitude was not the absence of company but the absence of purpose."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"She moved through the world like a ghost, neither fully alive nor truly dead."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"Loneliness is not about being alone; it is about feeling misunderstood."
Nora Seed
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"Loneliness is a choice I made."
Circe
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"Loneliness taught me who I truly was."
Circe
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"Solitude teaches us who we truly are when stripped of pretense."
Jean Valjean