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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

Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors — Confucius

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

Writing is a solitary occupation, except for Presidential speeches and sitcoms. — Ron Brackin

Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom! — Alexander Pope

...it seemed they spent their entire lives locked in solitary conversations with lumps of plastic.

-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 like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden. — Hayley Mills

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

Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without charge, under torture, which is what solitary confinement is. — Noam Chomsky

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable. — Karl Kraus

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.

You want to be there for me but an anxiety attack is a solitary activity. — R. YS Perez

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

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

Someone carries my belief that raises hope in me, but flame didn't last for long — Durgesh Satpathy

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

Writing is a solitary job, and should be taken to someone who believes in you. — Stephen King

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

It was my temper to avoid a crowd, and to attach myself fervently to a few. — Mary Shelley

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

My life is not merely a public phenomenon, it is a solitary adventure as well. — Tom Robbins

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

[Liberty] is a choreand a long-distance race, quite solitary, quite exhausting. — Albert Camus

Adoration is made out of a solitary soul occupying two bodies. — Aristotle.

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

Love did not die. I still create your image to my heart every solitary night. — Chrissy Moon

Writing is a solitary activity, it requires isolation and silence. — Dacia Maraini

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