Solitary Quotes

In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose.

Lots of creativity is and should be solitary.

I am not only retired from all public employments, but I am retiring within myself, and shall be able to view the solitary walk and tread the paths of private life with heartfelt satisfaction.

when I am alone in the forest I always say my prayers; and that occasional solitary communion with God is surely the only true religion for intelligent beings.

Lonely children often have imaginary playmates but I was never lonely; rather, I was solitary, and wanted no company at all other than books and movies, and my own imagination.

What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary?

The mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country, from every solitary beaver swamp and mountain-side, as soon as possible.

He who is ready to despair in solitary peril, plucks up a heart in the presence of another. In a plurality of comrades is much countenance and consolation.

Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language.

God reveals Himself, unfailingly, to the solitary, thoughtful seeker

For they both were solitary, She on earth and he is heaven. And he wooed her with caressed, Wooed her with his smile of sunshine -Song of Hiawatha, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I don't see myself as some kind of lone figure standing out there and doing my work in solitary splendour, but as part of the human condition and part of the continuum of writers.

Being a writer is a solitary life. So the little part of me that's an actor still enjoys the theatrical part of reading and doing the voices and telling the story.

I had no idea how complicated and solitary it could be to write a simple book.

It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone.

Theyre not group animals, theyre completely solitary, so if the babys mother is taken away, theres no system of aunts ... their whole system is destroyed.

As an actor, I'm always playing solitary characters. But as a director, I'm always making ensemble movies, which focus on lots of people's lives and how they intertwine.

Editing is kind of a solitary job.

I'm not trying to be ridiculous or funny, but it was rather pleasant to find yourself in isolation, in solitary.

A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy.

Writing is the most solitary of arts.

Writing is a solitary occupation, and we like it that way.

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.

And angling too, that solitary vice, What Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.

I'm a solitary sort, I get chaffed by too many elbows.

Freedom of a nation cannot be won by solitary acts of heroism though they may be of the true type, never by heroism so called.

Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful.

Adversity is solitary, while prosperity dwells in a crowd

Some struggles are so solitary that they drown in words.

The actual breakthrough in the privacy of the studio, when one dares to apply paint in a new manner, is a solitary thrill, dependent upon no one else.

The last man! Yes I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me.

I saw no cause for their unhappiness, but I was deeply affected by it. If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that I, an imperfect and solitary being, should be wretched.

The power to share has already turned once-solitary activities into social occasions.

Writing, at its heart, is a solitary pursuit, designed to make people depressoids, drug addicts, misanthropes, and antisocial weirdos.

Novel writing is solitary work.

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

When you've written a movie, you then get together with a whole lot of people and make it. In many ways, I think it is far nicer to be with people rather than being completely solitary.

I have always written about characters who fall somewhere in the spectrum between solitary and totally alienated.

Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives.

Writing is one of the most solitary activities in the world.

I love all waste and solitary places.

Lonely? I don't know. They tell me this is cold. I don't know what cold is, because I don't freeze. So I don't know what lonely means either. Bears are made to be solitary.

Children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way-and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children.

The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face.

My doom and my strength is to be solitary.

Plato conceived of philosophy as necessarily gregarious rather than solitary. The exposure of presumptions is best done in company, the more argumentative the better.

Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.

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.

Writing is such a solitary thing, so its nice, when Im discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.

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.