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It's solitary drinking that makes drunkards. — Nathanael West

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

She knows how things fit together and move, but so few people understand her. She's the most solitary person I've ever known. — Ally Condie

It's a cliche, but true, that writing is intensely solitary and at times really lonely. I sit in one room and talk to squirrels and blue jays all day. — Douglas Coupland

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

Twas beyond a mortal's share To wander solitary there: Two paradises 'twere in one To live in paradise alone. — Andrew Marvell

All alone in an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer who's lost his compass and his map. Is this what it means to be free? — Haruki Murakami

When I sing, it's the most solitary state: just me, and the microphone, and the holy spirit. It's not about notes or scales, it's all about emotion. — Sinead O'Connor

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

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

The New Testament does not envisage solitary religion; regular assembly for worship is everywhere in the epistles. — C.S. Lewis

A person's true security consists not in his own persinal, solitary effort, but in the common integrity of mankind. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Solitary confinement is rock bottom, it's absolute unfreedom. — Arthur Koestler

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

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

How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant! — Jules Verne

I like weeding, but I tend to think of it as a solitary activity. — Roy Blount Jr.

Writing is a solitary business. It's just you and your characters and a blank page you need to fill. — Shannon Celebi

We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain. — Edward Dahlberg

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

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

the austringer, the solitary trainer of goshawks and sparrowhawks, has had a pretty terrible press. — Helen Macdonald

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

For Jascha, artistic creation was the most private activity in the world: the soul's sacred and solitary communion with itself. (p. 244) — Rebecca Goldstein

The writing process for me is pretty much always the same - it's a solitary experience. — Sheryl Crow

Collaboration is a nice change of pace from the often solitary nature of the writer's craft. — Edward M. Lerner

It's funny. Writing is a solitary task, but in order to succeed at it, you need other people. — Kim Wright

The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also. — Seamus Heaney

Gustave's last years are arid and solitary. He — Julian Barnes

I would say to today's young minister, 'Be not afraid to give much time to solitary walks and meditation'. — Vance Havner

Well, it's true that I've never been solitary, although I spend a lot of time alone. I've never felt lonely or been shy. — Richard E. Grant

It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing. — Gary Oldman

I had become shy of life's bustle in my solitary retreat and was apprehensive at the thought of facing the world. — Selma Lagerlof

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

We were now arrived at the close of our solitary journeyings along the St. Joseph's trail. — Francis Parkman

Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel. — Edward Young

It's the same thing in a way, although writing a book is a very solitary thing. — Neil Jordan

Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even when he's there, he's not really there. — Paul Auster

There's definitely a solitary aspect to not having a band, and there are times when I wish that I did. — Grimes

If a man wants to be of the greatest possible value to his fellow-creature s let him begin the long, solitary task of perfecting himself. — Robertson Davies

Writing is such a solitary thing, so it's nice, when I'm discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction. — Robert Boswell

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