Solitude Quotes

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

14288 quotes

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"We are not alone in the universe, but perhaps we are meant to be."
Kris Kelvin
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"I wish you'd stop watching me like that. It makes me feel like I'm a bug under a microscope."
Arthur Dent
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"I am alone, and that is the nature of my kind."
Genly Ai
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"I've learned that isolation teaches you who you really are."
Ryland Grace
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"I don't have the power to call for help, and even if I did, there's no one to call."
Mark Watney
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"I'm literally the only person on an entire planet. That's got to be some kind of record."
Mark Watney
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"Being alone teaches you who you really are."
Mark Watney
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"There's no one here but me. Just me and the silence and the dust."
Mark Watney
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"We are all trapped on a planet hurtling through the dark."
Ye Wenjie
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"My only company is this planet and my thoughts."
Mark Watney
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"They wanted to study intelligence, but they never understood what it means to be intelligent and alone."
Charlie Gordon
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"They made me extraordinary, and extraordinary is the loneliest place to be."
Charlie Gordon
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"I began to see that loneliness affects people in ways that are difficult to observe from the outside"
Klara
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"In the end, all we have is the echo of our own voice."
Kris Kelvin
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"I became a bridge between two worlds, belonging fully to neither."
Charlie Gordon
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"In becoming smart, I learned to recognize my own loneliness."
Charlie Gordon
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"Each person is an island of consciousness."
Spice-induced narrator/Paul's visions
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"We are all exiles, but some of us know it."
Takver
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"In solitude, we learn to live with ourselves."
Takver
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"It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes."
Sherlock Holmes
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"I have no friends. I have never had friends."
Vera Claythorne
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"Every man and woman is alone."
Justice Wargrave
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"The isolation of the moor breeds both contemplation and madness."
Dr. John Watson
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"We are all exiles"
Shevek
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"Desert teaches you to isolate yourself from the human scene."
Paul Atreides
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"The tragedy is that intelligence made me alone."
Charlie Gordon
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"Solitude teaches what community cannot"
Shevek
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"I've never felt so alone in my life."
Nick Dunne
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"I don't know what's worse—to live among people who don't understand you, or to live in your mind and never be part of the world."
Charlie Gordon
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"I felt like a ghost in my own life."
Amy Dunne