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All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves.
— James Russell Lowell
I went out and had a drink. I needed to talk to someone, and solitary drinkers are lucky in this regard - they always have someone to talk to.
— Daniel Quinn
A solitary being is by instinct a wanderer ...
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
At a certain level of suffering or injustice no one can do anything for anyone. Pain is solitary.
— Albert Camus
You have to remember that writing itself is so solitary. You start writing because you're lonely.
— Sandra Cisneros
...it seemed they spent their entire lives locked in solitary conversations with lumps of plastic.
-Emilio Neri, Mob Thug — DAVID NEWSON
-Emilio Neri, Mob Thug — DAVID NEWSON
Man is a solitary animal condemned to live in herds.
— Peter G. Roe
Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
— Eugene O'Neill
They cast injustice and filth at the solitary one: but, my brother, if you would be a star, you must shine for them none the less on that account!
— Friedrich Nietzsche
That's when I realize how much I don't want to be alone, how sobbing should not be a solitary sport..
— Carrie Jones
I am a solitary wave in the dark and desolate sea: and the sparkling glass I drank was drugged with misery.
— Adelbert Von Chamisso
Knowledge has no value or use for the solitary owner: to be enjoyed it must be communicated
— Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden
Solitary muttering allows you to say all those things you don't have the courage to say to all those people who are
driving you nuts. — Suzanne Selfors
driving you nuts. — Suzanne Selfors
Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without charge, under torture, which is what solitary confinement is.
— Noam Chomsky
The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.
— Thomas Carlyle
Fierce and solitary he awaited death, mistrustful and hostile to all
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite.
— John C. Reilly
I'm solitary as a pulled tooth, Lonely as an unwelcome truth, Lost as a minnow out of school, A genius in a crop of fools.
— Gail Carson Levine
Dying is a very solitary thing. The only thing we can do it be there when she wants us there.
— Lois Lowry
the austringer, the solitary trainer of goshawks and sparrowhawks, has had a pretty terrible press.
— Helen Macdonald
To most, being locked away in solitary with nothing but pen and paper would prove a hard punishment. What a strange creature who views this as heaven.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Good prose is solitary work.
— Christopher Bram
I like weeding, but I tend to think of it as a solitary activity.
— Roy Blount Jr.
Watching the moon at midnight, solitary, mid-sky, I knew myself completely, no part left out.
— Izumi Shikibu
Autumn Dusk
I saw above a sea of hills
A solitary planet shine,
And there was no one, near or far,
to keep the world from being mine. — Sara Teasdale
I saw above a sea of hills
A solitary planet shine,
And there was no one, near or far,
to keep the world from being mine. — Sara Teasdale
We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.
— Edward Dahlberg
Surely man in general is born to be oppressed or solitary, if he is to be fully human;
— Patrick O'Brian
She needs us, for our love, but she doesn't need us for anything else now." He swallowed hard and said, "Dying is a very solitary thing.
— Lois Lowry
Never, ever give up. You're never too old to chase your dreams. It looks like a solitary sport, but really a team effort
— Diana Nyad
We read, I think, to repair our solitude, though pragmatically the better we read, the more solitary we become.
— Harold Bloom
My dreams are crowded with people, as though to compensate for the solitariness of my waking hours.
— Anna Lyndsey
If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.
— Florence King
The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am a bit of a solitude person - a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don't have any major friendships or relationships with people.
— Anthony Hopkins
Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.
— Abraham Cowley
My research was stimulating but solitary
— Alison Bechdel
I'm consumed by the chill of solitary.
— Alanis Morissette
No one can sum up all God is able to accomplish through one solitary life, wholly yielded, adjusted, and obedient to Him.
— D.L. Moody
Stand-up is a very scary, very solitary profession, but you have to experience it to figure out if it's right for you.
— Doug Benson
There is part of us that stands in quiet witness to what we do, taking notes, waiting for a solitary moment to bring up the subject.
— Robert Breault
Dance music tends to be a solitary affair.
— Peter Hook
A lengthy journey begins with a solitary first step, and ends with the last breath taken. --Debra Erfert
— Debra Erfert
Painting and writing are solitary arts.
— Conrad Hall
How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant!
— Jules Verne
Septimus has been working too hard - that was all she could say to her own mother. To love makes one solitary, she thought.
— Virginia Woolf
The man of earth is the adherent. The lover giveth his life unto the work among men. The hermit goeth solitary, and giveth only of his light unto men.
— Aleister Crowley
Writing a book is incredibly pleasurable, but very solitary. You have total control, but sometimes that can drive you insane.
— Justin Halpern
A little roving, solitary thing.
— Charlotte Bronte
A solitary life cherishes mere fancies until they become manias.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life.
— Tennessee Williams
She was white like the sands, tawny like the sands, solitary and burning like the sands.
— Honore De Balzac
Naked in solitary prison cell he looks down at a hard-on.
— Allen Ginsberg
If we want to be comforted, we must make up our minds to believe every single solitary word of comfort God has ever spoken.
— Hannah Whitall Smith
After a week of the contained chaos that is my job, I need some solitary running time. On Sundays, I can unwind and reconnect with the natural world.
— Linda Jones
When you are a solitary kid you find an imaginary friend.
— Jeanette Winterson
The seat of the Celtic Muse is in the mist of the secret and solitary hill, and her voice in the murmur of the mountain stream.
— Walter Scott
The artist's task is to become a successful eccentric, a strange but wise duck able to venture out of solitary confinement and mingle among society.
— Eric Maisel
For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.
— Beatrix Potter
Some struggles are so solitary that they drown in words.
— Martha Manning
In some way impossible to ascertain, after so many years of absense, Jose Arcadio was still an autumnal child, terribly sad and solitary.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I think, for me, listening to music is a very solitary thing. Or maybe that's just something people say when they're too lame to go to live shows.
— Becky Albertalli
Even the loneliest and most solitary in the universe... the very cold space dust... will eventually come together to form a star.
— G.C. Huxley
I would rather be alone than having a solitary company.
— Pushpa Rana
It's never one solitary event that has changed my life. It's a bunch of little pieces that built and built up to where I am now.
— Tinashe
Writing is such a solitary occupation that it takes a long time to build up a group of professional peers with whom you genuinely identify.
— Sara Sheridan
writing is an intensely solitary endeavor, but a story isn't truly heard until many hands have held it.
— Elizabeth J. Church
For writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy, freedom.
— Joyce Carol Oates
For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.
— Erwin Schrodinger
At that time I was only twenty-four years old. My life then was already gloomy, disorderly, and solitary to the point of savagery.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
We don't need any more writers as solitary heroes. We need a heroic writer's movement: assertive, militant, pugnacious.
— Toni Morrison
Like it was different up here with him now. Less solitary.More complete.The freedom to be and the freedom to enjoy.
— Barbara Delinsky
Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion.
— Paul Theroux
If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.
— Martha Beck
This world today makes one by the day a recluse
— Sian Lavinia Anais Valeriana
Writing is a solitary endeavor, being an author is not.
— Karen A. Chase
Mental prayer is, as I see it, simply a friendly intercourse and frequent solitary conversation with Him who, as we know, loves us.
— Teresa Of Avila
I have never thought of writing as a profession. It is a solitary independent activity in which practice can never bestow seniority.
— John Berger
Sometimes the solitary voice can be the best one.
— Frank Miller
By unseen hands uplifted in the light Of sunset, yonder solitary cloud Floats, with its white apparel blown abroad, And wafted up to heaven.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
— Zooey Deschanel
Alone. "A military unit is a fine thing when it works," he said. "But it usually don't work. A solitary feat of arms is better, if the foe is worthy.
— Larry McMurtry
To love makes one solitary.
— Virginia Woolf
The solitary Bee Whose buzzing was the only sound of life, Flew there on restless wing, Seeking in vain one blossom where to fix.
— Robert Southey
Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships; they are quite unrelatable.
— Elizabeth Bowen
He met failure as one day he would probably meet death, with cynical resentment and the courage of a solitary.
— John Le Carre
The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
— Gaston Bachelard