Solitary Quotes

Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favourable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad.

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.

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

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

In tennis you're on an island. Of all the games men and women play, tennis is the closest to solitary confinement.

Well I've been writing books. So that, by its nature, is kind of a solitary occupation. And from time to time I have research help, but mostly I've done those completely on my own.

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

The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.

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

I was drawn to be very solitary as a scholar. I lived a very quiet life, aloof, with my books, with my walks in nature, meditating, and of course with my teacher.

Genius, whether locked up in a cell or roaming at large, is always solitary.

Reading was my first solitary vice (and led to all others). I read while I ate, I read in the loo, I read in the bath. When I was supposed to be sleeping, I was reading.

My life is a very interior and solitary life. I tend not to care that much about external things.

The painter must be solitary. For if you are alone you are completely yourself, but if you are accompanied by a single companion, you are only half yourself.

In the history of the hip hop world...there has been one, single, solitary human being in the history of the world. One female rapper to sell more albums than me in the first week.

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

If it's true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes either the biggest fool on the planet or the biggest Einstein on the planet.

Go away. I hate everyone right now, and I'm pretty sure that includes you.

It's solitary drinking that makes drunkards.

They do not signify, these landscapes of the mind, with their shocking instants of awareness. They merely resonate, like the chemistry of lovers, throughout our solitary lives

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

I'm consumed by the chill of solitary.

There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.

If you are inclined to leave your character solitary for any considerable length of time, better question yourself. Fiction is association, not withdrawal.

If you can't do anything but fight, so every single solitary thing, every single solitary day, then the privilege of dreaming becomes something that only a few people have.

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

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

So far, she’d been her usual lame self: solitary and routine-loving, carefully avoiding any path that might lead to spontaneous human interaction. Lena Kaligaris

The songs came from a more solitary place and I hadn't played them with many people before recording. So I just added the layers of people who are in my life, and built up the songs.

I'm pretty solitary when I take pictures. Even when I take pictures of people, I just go about my own way of doing it.

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

I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.

As I paint, I realise, while it's something I do very much by myself, it's very solitary, the creative process feels similar to making music to me now, at least as far as my brain is concerned.

His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.

I think [Albert] Camus felt very solitary. You can see it in all his books.

You are always training yourself to be, mind and body, as clear as crystal, and you always are, and never change; whereas I am a muddy, solitary, moping weed.

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 tend to write, either myself, or I sometimes write with a co-writer, my friend that lives up the road. It's usually a relatively solitary thing, but I do like coming up with ideas.

The more I see of life the more I perceive that only through solitary communion with nature can one gain an idea of its richness and meaning.

Something struck me in Africa, in black Africa, where polygamy is legal: the solitary woman is the rule there, from at an extremely young age, and the children are always the mother's responsibility.

Writing is a solitary activity, it requires isolation and silence.

Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent and you feel those people filling your lives.

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

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

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

A solitary life cherishes mere fancies until they become manias.

Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated.

A color stands abroad on solitary hills that silence cannot overtake, but human nature feels.

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.

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