We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life! — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“You want to be there for me but an anxiety attack is a solitary activity.” — R. YS Perez Copy Share Image
A solitary life cherishes mere fancies until they become manias. — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“Within each person is the miracle of a unique consciousness unlike any other in the universe.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Christopher Knight, you could argue, is the most solitary known person in all of human history.” — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
Magic's quite a solitary pursuit - a thing you can do for hours and hours, getting better and better. — Derren Brown Copy Share Image
Something struck me in Africa, in black Africa, where polygamy is legal: the solitary woman is the rule there, from at an… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
Some moralist or mythological poet Compares the solitary soul to a swan; I am satisfied with that, Satisfied if a troubled mirror… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Acting can be very solitary, even if you're in a scene with someone else, because you worry about your own performance and… — Masi Oka Copy Share Image
I have three messages," said the breathless Nyad."One is we should never ever give up. Two is you are never too old… — Diana Nyad Copy Share Image
“lonely and isolated people who feel their solitude more intensely within the busy life of the streets. They are what George Gissing… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
The painter or draftsman ought to be solitary, in order that the well-being of the body not sap the vigour of the… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Lonely as God, and white as a winter moon, Mount Shasta starts up sudden and solitary from the heart of the great… — Joaquin Miller Copy Share Image
I would have been content with any job however thankless, in any quarter however remote, if I had a chance of making… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
Perhaps the rediscovery of our humanity, and the potential of the human spirit which we have read about in legends of older… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
“They all occupied the same space but did not occupy it together. Imagine a thousand leaves of tracing paper, each with one… — Doug Dorst Copy Share Image
“Imagine someone sitting alone in a room without television, radio, computer or phone and with the door closed and the blinds down.… — Michael Foley Copy Share Image
Letters were first invented for consoling such solitary wretches as myself. Having lost the substantial pleasures of seeing and possessing you, I… — Heloise Copy Share Image
In order to get one of the greatest inventions of the modern age, in other words, we thought we needed the solitary… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Depression is such a cruel punishment. There are no fevers, no rashes, no blood tests to send people scurrying in concern. Just… — Martha Manning Copy Share Image
The woods are never solitary– they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He had left a certain mode of life and chosen another and between that life and this a river ran, as impassable… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“In the case of the solitary, his seclusion, even when it is absolute and ends only with life itself, has often as… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
If an American is motoring on his own, he (the paragon of morality and chastity) will slow down and stop beside every… — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
It was from America that the plain ideas that men ought to mind their business, and that the nation is responsible to… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
“It's funny. Writing is a solitary task, but in order to succeed at it, you need other people.” — Kim Wright Copy Share Image
“Writing is always a solitary experience, but living, if you're lucky, is not.” — Beth Harbison Copy Share Image
It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing. — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
I think [Albert] Camus felt very solitary. You can see it in all his books. — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image