Top 813 Solitary Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on April 21, 2025.
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.
Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated.
There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite.
I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence.
What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary?
When you're writing, it's a very solitary job. It's you and your word processor and a cup of tea.
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.
I had no idea how complicated and solitary it could be to write a simple book.
Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.
I have always written about characters who fall somewhere in the spectrum between solitary and totally alienated.
Yoga is an inner process, which makes it a solitary venture, yet it works better when you have external support.
The free sharing and teaching of open source is incompatible with the notion of the solitary genius.
The painter or draftsman ought to be solitary, in order that the well-being of the body not sap the vigour of the mind.
The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.
Watching the moon at midnight, solitary, mid-sky, I knew myself completely, no part left out.
We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.
Writing is such a solitary thing, so its nice, when Im discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.
The idea of the solitary hero can be quite an unhealthy one, and we need to pool our efforts and be heroic together!
the whistle of the old steam trains ... could conjure up visions of bleak distances with one solitary wail.
It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.
We must...forge partnerships with those around us, and begin to dismantle the myth of solitary perfection.
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 was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.
The writing process for me is pretty much always the same - it's a solitary experience.
Book collecting is a largely solitary, mostly male, and completely absorbing activity.
Genius, whether locked up in a cell or roaming at large, is always solitary.
The New Testament does not envisage solitary religion; regular assembly for worship is everywhere in the epistles.
Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without charge, under torture, which is what solitary confinement is.
Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion.
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.
I spent 11 years in isolation units, solitary confinement... in the hardest places for women.
The pushy showbiz kid thing was always the performance, not the person. I'm very solitary. I don't like socialising.
We cannot evangelize until we have been evangelized. This happens most powerfully through solitary prayer.
A color stands abroad on solitary hills that silence cannot overtake, but human nature feels.
I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.
If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.
Few occupations pass the solitary hours more fruitfully than the playing of a musical instrument.
We were now arrived at the close of our solitary journeyings along the St. Joseph's trail.
His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
I like to write about the solitary things people do. Humans seem to function best when they're alone.
There's something terribly solitary about working in movies and television, and in New York, so much of the theater is showcasing.
For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.
He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
I think [Albert] Camus felt very solitary. You can see it in all his books.
The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face.
A solitary child growing up in Africa, you're really quite dependent on books.
Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories.
Writing a book is incredibly pleasurable, but very solitary. You have total control, but sometimes that can drive you insane.
Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language.
Discover that we are capable of solitary joy and having experienced it, know that we have touched the core of self.
Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.
I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
I had become shy of life's bustle in my solitary retreat and was apprehensive at the thought of facing the world.
Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested.
I would say to today's young minister, 'Be not afraid to give much time to solitary walks and meditation'.
I devoted myself simply to being a solitary person entrusted with a specific task.
I think I'm a very solitary person. To actually not be anonymous is a bit claustrophobic for me.
Let the moon shine on the in thy solitary walk; and let the misty mountain-winds be free to blow against thee.
Writing is a way of drifting within my own mind: almost a solitary process, so to speak.
Twas beyond a mortal's share To wander solitary there: Two paradises 'twere in one To live in paradise alone.
