Solitary Quotes

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.

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.

Sometimes the solitary voice can be the best one.

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

I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.

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

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.

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

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.

The writing process for me is pretty much always the same - it's a solitary experience.

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

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

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

The most solitary I ever felt was when I was living in New York. I used to live in Enrico Caruso's old apartment, and I had a special staircase that took me up to the roof. There was nobody up there.

I do not think that Mulder trusts any one other than Scully. He s very solitary. She is the only one who takes him seriously. I don t know if they re in love. In a way, their relationship is deeper than that, because they cannot live without each other.

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

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.

The wailing owl Screams solitary to the mournful moon.

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

Writing is a solitary occupation.

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

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.

A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.

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