Solitude Quotes

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

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"Solitude can be either blessing or curse."
Elodin
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"Solitude can breed both wisdom and despair."
Albus Dumbledore
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"In solitude, we find both our greatest strength and deepest weakness."
Wit (Hoid)
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"The dwarf sits alone and drinks."
Tyrion Lannister
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"In the end, we are all strangers in a strange land."
Shadow Moon
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"The worst thing is the loneliness."
Shadow Moon
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"The night gathers round me."
Jon Snow
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"Forever is a long time to be alone"
Rosalie Hale
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"I want to stay in the darkness a little longer, before the light finds me."
Tris Prior
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"The only place where I can be myself is in the darkness."
Four/Tobias Eaton
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"Games are the only environment where I think I can operate without constantly conflicting with everyone."
Ender Wiggin
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"Solitude teaches us what we need to survive alone."
Thomas
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"Nobody needs to know that we're here."
Arthur Dent
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"Isolation is the privilege of the strong. The weak are always desperate for connection."
Orson Scott Card (Narrator)
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"He was alone, but he was never lonely."
Orson Scott Card (Narrator)
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"I do not know how to explain to you the extreme sense of isolation I feel."
Genly Ai
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"I learned that I was not welcome anywhere."
Genly Ai
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"In the end, we are all lonely travelers."
Genly Ai
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"In the moment of victory, I was most alone."
Ender Wiggin
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"Isolation was his greatest strength and his deepest wound."
Orson Scott Card (Narrator)
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"Suddenly it occurred to me that I was not alone in the universe."
Arthur Dent
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"We are forever isolated in our individual consciousness."
Kris Kelvin
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"We come from the stars, but they will not welcome us home."
Genly Ai
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"To be wholly alien is perhaps the deepest loneliness."
Genly Ai
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"We are all exiles in some way, even in our own lands."
Genly Ai
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"In the darkness, a stranger."
Estraven
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"We are strangers in the dark."
Genly Ai
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"The station is a tomb of our own making."
Kris Kelvin
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"We build stations to escape ourselves, but ourselves follows."
Kris Kelvin
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"Alone, I didn't know the terrain. With Estraven, I was not alone, but I still didn't know the terrain."
Genly Ai