Solitude Quotes

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

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"It is a lonely thing to be a king."
The King
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"My path does not lead through villages and monasteries, but inward, toward myself"
Siddhartha
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"There is a clamour in the market place, and we who speak would not be heard."
The Prophet (Almustafa)
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"You struggle with the universal human problems, one of them being that we are born alone and we die alone."
Morrie Schwartz
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"I should not think of myself; I should live, I should be part of the world."
Siddhartha
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"In the end, there is nowhere to hide from oneself."
Vera Claythorne
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"I too am alone"
The Fox
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"I am nobody's friend"
The Fox
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"You must tame your heart to feel less alone."
The Fox
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"Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul."
Marcus Aurelius
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"Nowhere can a man be more alone than when he is alone with his thoughts."
Marcus Aurelius
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"What have you done to console yourself in your loneliness?"
The Little Prince
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"Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul."
Marcus Aurelius
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"There are those among you who seek the talkative man because they themselves are afraid of silence."
The Prophet (Almustafa)
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"I am so alone."
The Little Prince
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"In solitude, we find ourselves most truly."
Siddhartha
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"Isolation amplifies the mind's darkest thoughts."
Blore
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"I have never felt lonesome, or in the least oppressed by a sense of solitude"
Henry David Thoreau
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"I love to be alone"
Henry David Thoreau
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"Solitude is the virtue of the wild."
Zarathustra
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"I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing, and yet something radiates silently."
The Narrator (Pilot)
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"He was a little lonelier than before."
The Narrator (Pilot)
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"Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul."
Seneca
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"Solitude is the virtue of the wild and of gods alike."
Zarathustra
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"I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."
Henry David Thoreau
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"I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing, yet something whispers silently."
The Narrator (Pilot)
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"It is a lonely thing, being an adult."
The Narrator (Pilot)
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"I am so alone, I have no friends, I have no family, and I am so very alone."
The King
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"Solitude is where the soul finds itself."
Siddhartha
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"Solitude is the virtue of the rich; poverty is the virtue of the poor."
Zarathustra