With no companion but the constant Muse, Who sought me when I needed her ah, when Did I not need her, solitary… — Richard Henry Stoddard Copy Share Image
He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on… — Henry James Copy Share Image
I think for me it's just a matter of staying keyed into my lifelong friends from New York and family. And, you… — Debra Messing Copy Share Image
For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
Creativity is not a solitary process. It happens within networks... when talented people get together, when idea systems and mentalities merge. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers. — Robert Wyatt Copy Share Image
“I am a . . . solitary . . . man, he said. 'I do not suffer fools gladly, and I prefer… — Andrew Lane Copy Share Image
The painter must be solitary. For if you are alone you are completely yourself, but if you are accompanied by a single… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I have ever since (his wife's death) seemed to myself broken off from mankind; a kind of solitary wanderer in the wild… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A great many wise sayings have been uttered about the effects of solitary retirement; but the motives which impel men to seek… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
“…I know that if I were mad, after several days of confinement I should take advantage of any lapses in my madness… — André Breton Copy Share Image
We fight for territory. We see it in our Congress, we see it in our political systems, we see it in our… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
What do the animals do in the zoo? That's the same thing that I do in my cell. I play with myself.… — Charles Manson Copy Share Image
Ivan Lendl is a robot, a solitary, mechanical man who lives with his dogs behind towering walls at his estate in Connecticut.… — Tony Kornheiser Copy Share Image
I wish I could have lived just one day when the world was new. I wish—I wish I could have reaped just… — Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Copy Share Image
A pretext-not a cause-is sufficient for us to enter the "solitary situation", the situation of the dreaming solitude. In this solitude, memories… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Anyway, solitary people interest me. There are so many different ways of being solitary.' 'I know just what you mean,' said X.… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
“We can't stand it, to be alone. We cannot bear it, any more than the monks of old could bear it, men… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
What a position of transcendent horror must that be, where the perpetrator of a great crime, till then a stranger to positive… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
"The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
In the streets and in society I am almost invariably cheap and dissipated, my life is unspeakably mean. No amount of gold… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“O you singer, solitary, singing by yourself—projecting me; O solitary me, listening—nevermore shall I cease perpetuating you; Never more shall I escape,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Doing my art came out of something very solitary and something that I had no intention of showing anybody, and yet once… — Paul Stanley Copy Share Image
I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music. — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
Mathematical Mark all mathematical heads, which be only and wholly bent to those sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
The solitary Bee Whose buzzing was the only sound of life, Flew there on restless wing, Seeking in vain one blossom where… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
It's all still there in heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I’m not a true vegan. I dabble in sustainable fish and dawdle in the consumption of eggs. Steak doesn’t speak to me,… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
The pushy showbiz kid thing was always the performance, not the person. I'm very solitary. I don't like socialising. — Bonnie Langford Copy Share Image
That night as I lay in bed, I thought of several things I could have said and mourned the fact that my… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
The man who follows Christ in solitary mourning is greater than he who praises Christ amid the congregation of men. — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
Writing is a solitary pursuit and I think you have to be partially at peace with yourself, but it's the other part… — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
Also, painting and animation are really solitary pursuits, so the collaborative aspects of music making and acting are pretty welcome sometimes. — Tunde Adebimpe Copy Share Image
There were many things they simply didn't talk about: between them, silence was not so much a form of evasion as a… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and… — William Golding Copy Share Image
In this age of crowds in which I have determined to be a solitary, perhaps the greatest sin would be to lament… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Well, it's true that I've never been solitary, although I spend a lot of time alone. I've never felt lonely or been… — Richard E. Grant Copy Share Image
“It didn’t take much to turn a man solitary-being the new guy too often, being controversial now and then, a couple of… — Robyn Carr Copy Share Image
To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
