Solitude Quotes

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

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"It is terrible to be alone! but it is not lonely to be alone."
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 shines silently within one's heart."
The Narrator (Pilot)
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"Nowhere is he who is everywhere."
Seneca
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"In solitude, I discovered my true self."
Siddhartha
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"In silence, I heard the sound of my own being."
Siddhartha
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"What doth the herd-animal know of the loneliness of him who is high?"
Zarathustra
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"A person is lonely when surrounded by those who do not understand"
The Little Prince
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"A person is truly alone only when they forget who they are"
The Fox
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"Withdraw into yourself, but first prepare a sanctuary there."
Seneca
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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 am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud."
Henry David Thoreau
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"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe."
Zarathustra
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"I teach you: love your solitude and defend it."
Zarathustra
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"Ah, you wise men, why did you not go into the woods and leave society for a while?"
Zarathustra
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"There are many ways to be alone but only one way to be lonely."
Zarathustra
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"I see nobody on the road."
Alice
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"One of the pleasantest things in the world is going a journey; but I like to go by myself."
Mary Lennox
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"We're all alone."
Ponyboy Curtis
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"It's lonely sometimes, being a Tigger."
Tigger
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"I'm afraid I don't go out much anymore."
Willy Wonka
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"I have real, genuine troubles which nobody knows anything about."
Anne Shirley
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"We're all pretty much alone."
Sodapop Curtis
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"I never felt so alone."
Ponyboy Curtis
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"We're all pretty much alone."
Sodapop Curtis
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"She's none of my business."
Cheshire Cat
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"I am Eeyore. People call me Eeyore. If they call me at all."
Eeyore
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"I think I like it better when the lights are off."
Ponyboy Curtis
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"Marilla, did you ever feel a terrible gulf between you and everybody else and couldn't bridge it no matter how much you longed to?"
Anne Shirley
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"I have not been out of my factory in many years."
Willy Wonka
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"I wanted to disappear and be found at the same time"
Evelyn Hugo