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.

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

A solitary being is by instinct a wanderer.

Writing is a solitary occupation.

You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.

Composition has almost always been solitary.

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

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.

The artist after all is a solitary being.

A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.

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?

Always go to the solitary drinker for the truth!

The bible knows nothing of solitary religion.

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

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

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.

Be not solitary, be not idle

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I'm very fortunate in that all the mediums I work in are extremely collaborative. Movies are probably the most solitary on a day to day basis, but even then you have producers and studio executives to work with and bounce ideas off of.

I really do enjoy getting out to meet my readers. Writing is such a solitary business, it's gratifying to thank folks in person and really connect as human beings and not just words on a screen.

I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.

Writing is the most solitary of arts.

Painting is a solitary act for me; I don't need anyone around to make paintings.

To the lover the loved one always appears as solitary.

I'm perceived to be this solitary character, but nothing could be further from the truth.

Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.

Novel writing is solitary work.