Solitary Quotes

“Sin should be solitary and have no accomplices.”

— Oscar Wilde

Novel writing is solitary work.

— Mohsin Hamid

Always go to the solitary drinker for the truth!

— Anita Loos

The vain being is the really solitary being.

— Berthold Auerbach

I'm somewhat of a solitary person.

— Christopher Lloyd

All art is solitary and the studio is a torture area.

— Alexander Liberman

You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.

— Ovid

Writing is the most solitary of arts.

— Joyce Carol Oates

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

— Izumi Shikibu

The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.

— Cyril Connolly

“In solitude the solitary man consumes himself, in the crowd the crowd consumes him.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Melinda Blau

It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone.

— Jessamyn West

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

— Albert Camus

Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone.

— Virginia Woolf

“I've got a lot of homework to do, and none of it has anything to do with school.”

— Travis Thrasher

I will say that my days are spent solitary and somewhat lost in thought, and every single time I inadvertently wear my…

— Douglas Coupland

I'm the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to…

— Ariel Dorfman

I read like a crazy person, I play the piano, and I'm a photographer. I always say my photography keeps me sane.…

— Alaina Huffman

I'm pretty solitary when I take pictures. Even when I take pictures of people, I just go about my own way of…

— Ari Marcopoulos

Something in our nature cries out to be loved by another. Isolation is devastating to the human psyche. That is why solitary…

— Gary Chapman

Lonely children often have imaginary playmates but I was never lonely; rather, I was solitary, and wanted no company at all other…

— Gore Vidal

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

— Barbara Ascher

She had been a solitary child, and then solitary as a woman, drawn into an orbit of her own that took her…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

Perhaps the rediscovery of our humanity, and the potential of the human spirit which we have read about in legends of older…

— Pierre Trudeau

“They all occupied the same space but did not occupy it together. Imagine a thousand leaves of tracing paper, each with one…

— Doug Dorst

“Imagine someone sitting alone in a room without television, radio, computer or phone and with the door closed and the blinds down.…

— Michael Foley

Letters were first invented for consoling such solitary wretches as myself. Having lost the substantial pleasures of seeing and possessing you, I…

— Heloise

Regardless of communication between man and man, speech is a necessary condition for the thinking of the individual in solitary seclusion. In…

— Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben

In order to get one of the greatest inventions of the modern age, in other words, we thought we needed the solitary…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Performing alone - it's a very solitary experience. When you're in a band, when something amazing happens on stage you can look…

— Aoife O'Donovan

“I am often reminded how a small fire underneath a vast sky can bind people together like nothing else. For all that…

— Kevin Hearne

But everything that may some day be possible to many the solitary man can now prepare and build with his hands, that…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

The essence of modernity is that progress no longer waits on genius; instead we have learned to put our faith in the…

— William Wickenden

How can there be democracy if the leadership in the United States and Britain don't uphold the values which my father's generation…

— Vanessa Redgrave

A prisoner lived in solitary confinement for years. He saw and spoke to no one and his meals were served through an…

— Anthony de Mello

“have no interest in love, no time for comfort and no tolerance for commitment. My career is probably one of the most…

— Lily White

And now I was lonelier, I supposed, than anyone else in the world. Even Defoe's creation, Robinson Crusoe, the prototype of the…

— Anonymous

Authority is a solvent of humanity: look at any husband, any father of a family,and note the absorption of the person by…

— Patrick O'Brian

Insofar as I think about postmodernism at all, and it doesn't exactly keep me awake at nights, I think of it as…

— Jonathan Raban