Top 865 Solitary Confinement Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite.

A cigar numbs sorrow and fills the solitary hours with a million gracious images.

At a certain level of suffering or injustice no one can do anything for anyone. Pain is solitary.

Book collecting is a largely solitary, mostly male, and completely absorbing activity.

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

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

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

The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.

Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the poet to become tender and imaginitive in the loneliness of confinement. He banquets upon the honey of his own thoughts, and, like the captive bird, pours forth his soul in melody.

Slowly I began to realize that the bells and the confinement, the crazy sequences, the age-segregation, the lack of privacy, the constant surveillance, and all the rest of the national curriculum of schooling were designed exactly as if someone had set out to prevent children from learning how to think and act, to coax them into addiction and dependent behavior.

The free sharing and teaching of open source is incompatible with the notion of the solitary genius.

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

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

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 painter or draftsman ought to be solitary, in order that the well-being of the body not sap the vigour of the mind.

I would rather die than do a play - 10 years in solitary instead.

Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak.

After one hundred days of confinement following a bone marrow transplant, I rejoiced in taking short walks to a nearby park as I was writing 'Girl in Hyacinth Blue.' The uncertainty of my survival made every blade of grass gorgeous in its green intensity, lifting itself up, doing its part to make the world beautiful.

The idea of the solitary hero can be quite an unhealthy one, and we need to pool our efforts and be heroic together!

All birth means separation from the All, the confinement within limitation, the separation from God, the pangs of being born ever anew. The return into the All, the dissolution of painful individuation, the reunion with God means the expansion of the soul until it is able once more to embrace the All.

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

Few occupations pass the solitary hours more fruitfully than the playing of a musical instrument.

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

Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

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

Medicine has an immediate impact, the ability to do good. Writing is such a solitary activity.

For me, acting has often been solitary. You're all together, and then boom, you're gone.

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

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

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

There is something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on earth but not quite.

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

It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.

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

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

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

A solitary child growing up in Africa, you're really quite dependent on books.

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

We must...forge partnerships with those around us, and begin to dismantle the myth of solitary perfection.

Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion.

Writing a book is incredibly pleasurable, but very solitary. You have total control, but sometimes that can drive you insane.

I like to write about the solitary things people do. Humans seem to function best when they're alone.

The New Testament does not envisage solitary religion; regular assembly for worship is everywhere in the epistles.

Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.

Adoration is made out of a solitary soul occupying two bodies.

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

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

Discover that we are capable of solitary joy and having experienced it, know that we have touched the core of self.

Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested.

Mother, when your children are irritable, do not make them more so by scolding and fault-finding, but correct their irritability by good nature and mirthfulness. Irritability comes from errors in food, bad air, too little sleep, a necessity for change of scene and surroundings; from confinement in close rooms, and lack of sunshine.

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

We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.

When you're writing, it's a very solitary job. It's you and your word processor and a cup of tea.

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

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

A solitary life cherishes mere fancies until they become manias.

Animal abuse is rampant in the U.S., right under everyone's eyes, for the entertainment of the public. The brutal confinement and pain of training methods of wild animals in the circus, the aquatic and theatrical shows, leads to retaliation by the animals. Eventually they find the right time to strike out, and they will.

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

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

The pushy showbiz kid thing was always the performance, not the person. I'm very solitary. I don't like socialising.