A solitary child growing up in Africa, you're really quite dependent on books. — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When you're writing, it's a very solitary job. It's you and your word processor and a cup of tea. — Paul W. S. Anderson Copy Share Image
I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
If we want to be comforted, we must make up our minds to believe every single solitary word of comfort God has… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
I have a nice little office, with a nice little window in it, but I do basically spend huge amounts of time… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“Creating is often a solitary experience. Yet work made entirely in isolation is usually doomed to remain lonely.” — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience.… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
Mark all Mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
“Jacob opened the refrigerator and stared into it vacantly, with the false purposefulness that lingers for a few moments when a person… — Caleb Crain Copy Share Image
I am a bit of a solitude person - a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don't have any… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
[He] would drive his sculling boat through mile after mile, in a silent brutal programe of conditioning - he would work all… — Daniel Topolski Copy Share Image
She didn't want to go far, just out of the trees so she could see the stars. They always eased her loneliness.… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
Writing can be a very solitary profession, and when deadlines are looming, it's tempting to glue myself to my desk, but I… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
I begin to fully understand the lengths to which people have gone to protect me. What I mean to the rebels. My… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
But we are as other men, exactly. Of one blood, one species, one brain, one figure, one fundamental set of collective instincts,… — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
One solitary God-centered, God-intoxicated man can do more to keep God's love alive and His presence felt in the world than a… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
"The flowers have appeared in our land: the time of pruning is come: the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms,… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
His brow is seamed with line and scar; His cheek is red and dark as wine; The fires as of a Northern… — Walter de La Mare Copy Share Image
There was something formless and perfect before the universe was born. It is serene. Empty. Solitary. Unchanging. Infinite. Eternally present. It is… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“I am not poor, I am not rich; nihil est, nihil deest, I have little, I want nothing: all my treasure is… — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
“The journey simultaneously holds the contraries of solitary longing and relatedness to community, as Shaw tells us: “It’s an extraordinary, indigenous idea… — Martin Shaw Copy Share Image
The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The solitary ascent of the Dru had the immediate effect of expanding the horizons of my ideas about mountaineering. It made me… — Walter Bonatti Copy Share Image
Shouldn't the American leadership be addressing what is happening in America, with its domestic policies on racism, discrimination, illegal monitoring, solitary confinement,… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Great ideas, it has been said, come into the world as gently as doves. Perhaps then, if we listen attentively, we shall… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“That's when I realize how much I don't want to be alone, how sobbing should not be a solitary sport..” — Carrie Jones Copy Share Image
the whistle of the old steam trains ... could conjure up visions of bleak distances with one solitary wail. — M.C. Beaton Copy Share Image
A cigar numbs sorrow and fills the solitary hours with a million gracious images. — George Sand Copy Share Image
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image