Top 1200 Solitary Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

Theater going is a communal act, movie going a solitary one.

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

It's true that it's a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know them.

We are winning millions to Christ, one soul at a time. Every single, solitary soul is precious.

Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!

Don’t get me wrong. Being a mom is no picnic. Raising the kids is the mother’s responsibility. It’s a thankless, solitary job, like sheriff or Pope.

A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy.

In some way impossible to ascertain, after so many years of absense, Jose Arcadio was still an autumnal child, terribly sad and solitary.

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

Lonely as God, and white as a winter moon, Mount Shasta starts up sudden and solitary from the heart of the great black forests of Northern California

It's true that writing is a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know them.

It seems there is no area in our culture that is not touched, changed, even swallowed by the Internet. It's both medium and message, mass and personal, social and solitary.

When I'm away from basketball, I'm the biggest kid. I do a good job of keeping myself sane. But on the other hand, I'm more of a solitary guy, glad to be left alone.

Creativity is a space for solitary longing, the desire to be elsewhere in space and time, to be in a new ideal world where life is as it should be.

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.

You don't believe that your friend could ever do anything great. You despise yourself in secret, even – no, especially – when you stand on your dignity; and since you despise yourself, you are unable to respect your friend. You can't bring yourself to believe that anyone you have sat at table with, or shared a house with, is capable of great achievement. That is why all great men have been solitary. It is hard to think in your company, little man. One can only think 'about' you, or 'for your benefit', not 'with' you, for you stifle all big, generous ideas.

Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October woods!

It's all still there in heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days and years to come.

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

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

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

I’m not a true vegan. I dabble in sustainable fish and dawdle in the consumption of eggs. Steak doesn’t speak to me, and tempeh is so-so. I’ll savor a solitary apricot that’s been kissed by my baby.

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.

Holmes has become the dark side of the moon for me. He is moody and solitary and underneath I am really sociable and gregarious. It has all got too dangerous.

By unseen hands uplifted in the light Of sunset, yonder solitary cloud Floats, with its white apparel blown abroad, And wafted up to heaven.

During one period while I was in solitary, I memorized the names of all 335 of the men who were then prisoners of war in North Vietnam. I can still remember them.

Stand-up is a very scary, very solitary profession, but you have to experience it to figure out if it's right for you.

My mother had been a solitary chef. It was her recreation and her escape.

[Liberty] is a choreand a long-distance race, quite solitary, quite exhausting.

Acting always affects every part of your life because it's such a solitary, lonely, and thrilling circumstance that you're taking on someone else's character and that responsibility. It's exhausting.

You have to remember that writing itself is so solitary. You start writing because you're lonely.

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

Something in our nature cries out to be loved by another. Isolation is devastating to the human psyche. That is why solitary confinement is considered the cruelest of punishments.

Headlining can be sort of solitary - you're sort of on your own out there, and you start to feel for a change.

The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.

I have recurring nightmares about being in a Nazi concentration camp with all my family and constantly being sent to solitary confinement.

I saw what was wonderful about human companionship. Before that, I was quite content to be alone, to be a solitary wandering person, and I thought I always would be. Love changed that.

There were many things they simply didn't talk about: between them, silence was not so much a form of evasion as a way for solitary people to exist in a family.

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.

To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them with a privileged image of our common joys and woes.

Freedom of a nation cannot be won by solitary acts of heroism though they may be of the true type, never by heroism so called.

The saddest day has gleams of light, The darkest wave hath bright foam beneath it. There twinkles o'er the cloudiest night, Some solitary star to cheer it.

It's never one solitary event that has changed my life. It's a bunch of little pieces that built and built up to where I am now.

Plato conceived of philosophy as necessarily gregarious rather than solitary. The exposure of presumptions is best done in company, the more argumentative the better.

If we want to be comforted, we must make up our minds to believe every single solitary word of comfort God has ever spoken.

I love getting out the house because writing is such a solitary business that even being at the library makes me feel part of the world.

Writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy and freedom.

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.

Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life.

Me, you could stick me in solitary confinement for 100 years and I'd be fine.

Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.

He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.

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

I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.

Wars are not acts of God. They are caused by man, by man-made institutions, by the way in which man has organized his society. What man has made, man can change.

Being married and having a child was not something I wanted, and I knew that at a very young age. I tend to be more solitary, and I'm truly a free spirit.

The Holy Spirit showed me that when I put up walls to keep others out I also wall myself into solitary place of confinement.

With no companion but the constant Muse, Who sought me when I needed her ah, when Did I not need her, solitary else?

Solitude is not the same as loneliness. Solitude is a solitary boat floating in a sea of possible companions.

I was quite solitary for 'Hitman.' I was quite apart. He struck me as a very sad individual. There was a mournful quality there.