Top 865 Solitary Confinement Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Every champion golfer comes to Augusta imbued with a towering source of inspiration. It's a solitary journey, but it's one that no player... makes alone.

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

He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.

I'm solitary as a pulled tooth, Lonely as an unwelcome truth, Lost as a minnow out of school, A genius in a crop of fools.

Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language.

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

I saw above a sea of hills A solitary planet shine, And there was no one, near or far, to keep the world from being mine.

the whistle of the old steam trains ... could conjure up visions of bleak distances with one solitary wail.

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.

He who is ready to despair in solitary peril, plucks up a heart in the presence of another. In a plurality of comrades is much countenance and consolation.

The actual breakthrough in the privacy of the studio, when one dares to apply paint in a new manner, is a solitary thrill, dependent upon no one else.

Let the moon shine on the in thy solitary walk; and let the misty mountain-winds be free to blow against thee.

I love writing books, but it's a solitary experience. When I'm on a film set, I'm with a bunch of other artists working together to make one thing.

I am a bit of a solitude person - a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don't have any major friendships or relationships with people.

In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose.

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

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home. I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as they are, grand and beautiful.

Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves.

Watching the moon at midnight, solitary, mid-sky, I knew myself completely, no part left out.

There is part of us that stands in quiet witness to what we do, taking notes, waiting for a solitary moment to bring up the subject.

Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.

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

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

I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.

Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories.

It's taken me a long time to work out what people are thinking and what they're expecting. I am naturally solitary, and I'm comfortable with that.

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

For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.

I suppose directing on set is the most fun because it's a good crack and you feel you're on the battlefield whereas writing is a fairly solitary undertaking.

The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.

Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.

Creativity is not a solitary process. It happens within networks... when talented people get together, when idea systems and mentalities merge.

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.

No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.

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

Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is celebrated with champagne...Oh no! It's a...long distance race, quite solitary and very exhausting.

Writing is a solitary pursuit and I think you have to be partially at peace with yourself, but it's the other part that's usually producing the stuff worth reading.

For me, Africa is a land of light and contrast. Black and white is the best way to express the solitary emotion and vitality of wildlife.

The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.

Could we say that the short short is to other kinds of fiction somewhat as the lyric is to other kinds of poetry? The lyric does not seek meaning through extension, it accepts the enigmas of confinement. It strives for a rapid unity of impression, an experience rendered in its wink of immediacy. And so too with the short short.

Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful.

It's a cliche, but true, that writing is intensely solitary and at times really lonely. I sit in one room and talk to squirrels and blue jays all day.

Yoga is an inner process, which makes it a solitary venture, yet it works better when you have external support.

I had become shy of life's bustle in my solitary retreat and was apprehensive at the thought of facing the world.

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

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

The solitary Bee Whose buzzing was the only sound of life, Flew there on restless wing, Seeking in vain one blossom where to fix.

The famous soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary, paranoic-critical camembert oftime and space.

Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.

The temple of Ceres should be in a solitary spot out of the city, to which the public are not necessarily led but for the purpose of sacrificing to her.

All humans are essentially wild creatures and hate confinement. We need what is wild, and we thrill to it, our wildness bubbling over with an anarchic joie de vivre. We glint when the wild light shines. The more suffocatingly enclosed we are - tamed by television, controlled by mortgages and bureaucracy - the louder our wild genes scream in aggression, anger and depression.

No one can sum up all God is able to accomplish through one solitary life, wholly yielded, adjusted, and obedient to Him.

Writing, at its heart, is a solitary pursuit, designed to make people depressoids, drug addicts, misanthropes, and antisocial weirdos.

Also, painting and animation are really solitary pursuits, so the collaborative aspects of music making and acting are pretty welcome sometimes.

My two bits here are that writing is a solitary job but there are times when one needs to discuss the work, and see what's working and what's not.

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

Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on trial; today it determines the law.

There's something terribly solitary about working in movies and television, and in New York, so much of the theater is showcasing.

I like the busy-ness of office life. What I discovered, to my surprise, is that I love the solitary nature of writing. What happens is that you write when you're ready.