Solitary Quotes

Theater going is a communal act, movie going a solitary one.

A smoke in times of rest is a great companion to the solitary soldier.

Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive.

Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement.

I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home.

A solitary being is by instinct a wanderer.

The worth of a life is not determined by a single failure or a solitary success.

Writing is a solitary occupation.

You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.

The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.

Composition has almost always been solitary.

Solitude is nothing that one can choose or retrain from. We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all.

A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.

The artist after all is a solitary being.

Always go to the solitary drinker for the truth!

The bible knows nothing of solitary religion.

Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own. I've never minded about it.

The vain being is the really solitary being.

I am solitary as grass. What is it I miss? Shall I ever find it, whatever it is?

The lover`s discourse was of an extreme solitude. The solitude was extreme because it wasn`t physical. It was extreme because you felt it while in the company of the person you loved. It was extreme because it was in your head, the most solitary of places.

We cannot evangelize until we have been evangelized. This happens most powerfully through solitary prayer.

Be not solitary, be not idle

All art is solitary and the studio is a torture area.

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

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

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.

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

I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence.

One of the things that I wound up loving about being involved with a bike racer was learning how to bike and how that really creates solitary time for you to reflect on things and nobody can get a hold of you.

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

True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.

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

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.

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

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

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.

To garden is a solitary act.

Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships; they are quite unrelatable.

The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.

Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being.

Lots of creativity is and should be solitary.

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

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

To love makes one solitary.

Writing is always a solitary experience, but living, if you're lucky, is not.

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

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

I think I'm a very solitary person. To actually not be anonymous is a bit claustrophobic for me.

It's solitary drinking that makes drunkards.