Solitude Quotes

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

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"Solitude is both refuge and prison"
Shevek
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"Loneliness teaches you who you really are."
Lisbeth Salander
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"Solitude is the price of integrity"
Takver
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"Isolation breeds contempt for the world."
Lisbeth Salander
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"Innovation requires solitude"
Shevek
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"Loneliness is the price of consciousness"
Charlie Gordon
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"In isolation, we discover our true nature"
Shevek
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"We are alone together"
Takver
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"The more I learn about people, the more I like my cat."
Lisbeth Salander
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"I've learned that loneliness is a luxury few can afford."
Mikael Blomkvist
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"Solitude is not isolation but communion"
Takver
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"I found Watson in his old sitting-room which he has hardly ever quitted"
Dr. John Watson
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"Loneliness and solitude are not the same thing"
Shevek
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"The operation made me more alone than I've ever been."
Charlie Gordon
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"The more I learn, the more alone I become."
Charlie Gordon
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"I have my eye upon a suite of rooms in Montague Street."
Sherlock Holmes
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"Now I understand what loneliness is. It isn't the being alone that matters. It's the being unliked."
Charlie Gordon
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"The thing about being really, truly alone is that you don't even feel it at first."
Rachel Watson
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"We are all islands," she said softly, "shouting across the void."
Vera Claythorne
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"Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music."
The Prophet (Almustafa)
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"Solitude teaches what company cannot"
Shevek
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"I shall be in my study."
Sherlock Holmes
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"To find peace, one must first find the courage to be alone."
Siddhartha
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"I have lived a lot of loneliness"
The Fox
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"I sought to understand the meaning of suffering in solitude."
Siddhartha
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"Solitude is a silent rebellion against the ways of the world."
The Prophet (Almustafa)
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"Loneliness is a terrible thing."
Vera Claythorne
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"I sought the truth in many places, but found it only in silence."
Siddhartha
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"I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing, yet something shines silently within the heart."
The Narrator (Pilot)
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"I am so alone."
The Little Prince