Solitary Quotes

It's all still there in heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days and years to come.

“Et Tu, Babe” was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer’s life was solitary and insular, and I was happy with that. I love reading and writing, it’s my whole life.

I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.

If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you

I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.

Writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy and freedom.

True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.

A flower more sacred than far-seen success Perfumes my solitary path; I find Sweet compensation in my humbleness, And reap the harvest of a quiet mind.

All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves.

I devoted myself simply to being a solitary person entrusted with a specific task.

I suppose directing on set is the most fun because it's a good crack and you feel you're on the battlefield whereas writing is a fairly solitary undertaking.

Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.

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

In some way impossible to ascertain, after so many years of absense, Jose Arcadio was still an autumnal child, terribly sad and solitary.

Writing is solitary, so I love going out once in a while and meeting my readers. I'll often hang with them after a signing for some beers. They're invariably bright!

The solitary Bee Whose buzzing was the only sound of life, Flew there on restless wing, Seeking in vain one blossom where to fix.

As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary.

It is possible to be solitary in one's mind while living in a crowd, and it is possible for one who is solitary to live in the crowd of his own thoughts.

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.

The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.

No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.

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

The life of a solitary man will be certainly miserable, but not certainly devout.

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

The inner chambers of the soul are like the photographer's darkroom. Like a laboratory. One cannot stay there all the time or it becomes the solitary cell of the neurotic.

Mathematical Mark all mathematical heads, which be only and wholly bent to those sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, and how unapt to serve in the world.

Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently

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

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors

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

The wild bird that flies so lone and far has somewhere its nest and brood. A little fluttering heart of love impels its wings, and points its course. There is nothing so solitary as a solitary man.

I think for me it's just a matter of staying keyed into my lifelong friends from New York and family. And, you know, I'm pretty solitary. I'm a homebody. So I don't get out much to get into trouble

I am alternately very gregarious - very sociable - and then very solitary.

Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. Thus religion is solitariness; and if you are never solitary, you are never religious.

Research and writing are lonely occupations. It is easy to become discouraged in solitary confinement.

This solitary Tree! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed.

Yoga is an inner process, which makes it a solitary venture, yet it works better when you have external support.

A holy life is not an ascetic, or gloomy or solitary life, but a life regulated by divine truth and faithful in Christian duty. It is living above the world while we are still in it.

Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested.

Never befuddle a solitary thrashing with a last annihilation.

Discover that we are capable of solitary joy and having experienced it, know that we have touched the core of self.

Watching the moon at midnight, solitary, mid-sky, I knew myself completely, no part left out.

A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.

At a certain level of suffering or injustice no one can do anything for anyone. Pain is solitary.

With no companion but the constant Muse, Who sought me when I needed her ah, when Did I not need her, solitary else?

We must...forge partnerships with those around us, and begin to dismantle the myth of solitary perfection.

Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.

To garden is a solitary act.

Knowledge has no value or use for the solitary owner: to be enjoyed it must be communicated