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I think I'll feel out of place wherever I go on earth, forever. But that's fine. I have to make my peace with that. — Laura Marling

Fly-fishing is a magic way to recapture the rapture of solitude without the pangs of loneliness. — John D. Voelker

Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone. — Bruce Lee

Loneliness is random; solitude is ritual. — Pearl Cleage

if we don't have experience with solitude - and this is often the case today - we start to equate loneliness and solitude. — Sherry Turkle

Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone. — Marty Rubin

Jamie enjoyed solitude, but loneliness was a constant ache. — Sidney Sheldon

Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin. — Ian Fleming

What's a rainy day
without some delicious
coffee-flavoured loneliness? — Sanober Khan

A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you. — Criss Jami

Loneliness is the manifestation of the conflict between our desire for meaning and the absence of objective meaning from the universe. — Neel Burton

In solitude, we lose our loneliness. — Wendell Berry

Like dry ground welcoming the rain, he let the solitude, silence, and loneliness soak in. — Haruki Murakami

If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die. — Lord Byron

Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover ... or was it only my own solitude that I could not abide? — David Markson

In a society where people are obsessed with personal space, dogs have come to serve as welcome, neo-human mediators of loneliness and solitude. — Okey Ndibe

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. — Maggie Smith

You will never feel alone, if you run down the stairs of loneliness; as every solitary step becomes your companion. — Munia Khan

Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself. — Hermann Hesse

Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another. — May Sarton

It's bad to be unable to stand solitude. — Leo Tolstoy

When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude. — Alfred Polgar

Solitude is a terrible thing, for it permits the imagination to picture, in detail, that which perhaps should never be articulated. — Patrick McGrath

I decided that maybe we left each other alone too much. Leaving each other alone was killing us. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

Clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude. — Virginia Woolf

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self. — May Sarton

Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right. — Charles Bukowski

Loneliness is one thing, solitude another: you have learned that - now! — Friedrich Nietzsche

Loneliness is imposed by society, it kills you and solitude
is self inflicted. I enjoy my solitude — Dixy Gandhi

Solitude and loneliness are two separate things. One you choose out of wisdom, the other out of necessity.
-Mark Miller — Mark Miller

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not. — Anna Neagle

I inhale loneliness like it is the sweet smell of virgin earth conquered by fiery rain drops. Within me, I'm a thousand others. — Faraaz Kazi

Loneliness is solitude with a problem. — Maggie Nelson

Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn't even begin to solve. — Kate Atkinson

Loneliness is inner emptiness. Solitude is inner fulfillment. — Richard J. Foster

There are kinds of solitude that provide a respite from loneliness, a holiday if not a cure. — Olivia Laing

The rhythm of solitude, once so intimidating, began to feel comfortable. Aloneness, I was learning, does not have to equal loneliness. — John Grogan

Walking alone is not difficult but when we have walked a mile worth a thousand years with someone then coming back alone is what is difficult. — Faraaz Kazi

I am never less alone than when alone. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I like to make a distinction between solitude and being alone. Alone signifies loneliness, whereas solitude means really connecting with yourself. — Deepak Chopra

my heart, sometimes singing in the afternoon, the most haunting song of solitude — John J. Geddes

Solitude is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. — Deepak Chopra

Poems can get
sleepless too

and become

the loneliest thing
in the universe. — Sanober Khan

I'm only remembering unnecessary things because I'm alone. — Mika Yamamori

Solitude, the joy of being alone, stems from, as well as promotes, a state of maturity and inner richness. — Neel Burton

I don't know why solitude would be a balm for loneliness, but that is how it always was for me in those days, — Marilynne Robinson

I've never minded solitude. For a writer, it's a natural condition. But caring for a dementia sufferer leads to a peculiar kind of loneliness. — Laurie Graham

Loneliness is sadness.
Solitude is happiness. — Crestless Wave

Aloneness exaggerates our emotions and sensitivity. — Beth Moore

You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies. — Gilles Deleuze

Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude. — Paul Tillich

Although he had through the memories learned about the pain of loss and loneliness, now he gained too, an understanding of solitude and its joy. — Lois Lowry

...loneliness is not a function of solitude. — David Foster Wallace

Nothing has the power to remind you how alone you are like walking through a conglomeration of empty skyscrapers. — Matthew Tysz

There's a difference between loneliness and solitude. — Jennifer E. Smith

Sometimes in utter hopelessness I put my cheek on the table like it was someone. I wanted to wake my brain up and be loved. — Eileen Myles

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. — Dag Hammarskjold

I've seen women-and men too, sometimes-as canna bear the sound of their own thoughts, and they maybe dinna make such good matches with those who can. — Diana Gabaldon

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him. — Criss Jami

Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing. — Fred Rogers

The very fine line between loneliness and solitude, reflection; being alone, always appealed to me when I was a kid. — Brad Mehldau

Anyone who is desperate or alone will agree there is comfort in routine. — Simon Van Booy

To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived. — Fanny Burney

Sometimes isolation can be shared. — Ken Grimwood

Loneliness is failed solitude. — Sherry Turkle

I have found no other cure for loneliness than to befriend it. — Charlotte Eriksson

At any moment solitude may put on the face of loneliness. — May Sarton

Loneliness is just space expanding around you. Trust uncertainty. Sadness is life holding you in its hands and changing you. Make solitude your home. — Rachel Corbett

A box sits empty,
wanting to hold and protect.
Hollow tears it cries. — Richelle E. Goodrich

In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity. — Ingmar Bergman

Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. — Henry David Thoreau

What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self? — Henrik Ibsen

She's one in a million. And that's why she's lonely. — Joyce Rachelle

Loneliness is a poison, but aloneness is a catalyst. — Sam Killermann

Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine. — Honore De Balzac

He liked the loneliness of inner space, the sense of being forgotten by the world. — Richard Preston

Loneliness is one thing, solitude is another. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Loneliness isn't a disease, it is only a moment to learn something better — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone. — Paul Tillich

The whole problem of life is this: how to break out of one's own solitude, how to communicate with others. — Cesare Pavese

If solitude feels painful, it's only because we don't know how to be alone. — Michael Harris

Solitude was in its own way a balm for loneliness. — Diana Gabaldon

I'm . . . accustomed to being alone. There are times when alone is the best place to be. I enjoy my own company. — Sara Naveed

Everybody in the world wants to be understood and to have others appreciate them.
Being different is scary. Solitude is pain and loneliness. — Mizuki Nomura

I seek the city because there is nothing sweeter than not being alone in your loneliness. — Charlotte Eriksson

It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away. — Sherman Alexie

Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her. — Shannon Hale

Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness. — Criss Jami

One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well. — Karl Kraus

It is good to be alone, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult should be one more reason to do it. — Rainer Maria Rilke

I felt lonely, and in full possession of my loneliness. It was the first time I had owned anything of value. — Ben Greenman

Loneliness is a desert. Solitude an oasis. — Ted Agon

One of the greatest acts of service you can do is to find someone who is secretly lonely and be a friend to them, if only for a day. — Dan Pearce

If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company. — Jean-Paul Sartre

I shall lead you through the loneliness, the solitude you will not understand; but it is my shortcut to your soul. — Thomas Merton

If I exist, then surely there must be someone else out there like me. — Joyce Rachelle

I find a certain degree of loneliness not only tolerable but deeply pleasurable. — Allen Shawn

When we learn to speak, we learn to translate. — Octavio Paz