Solitary Quotes · Page 9

Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!

— Alexander Pope

Painting is a solitary act for me; I don't need anyone around to make paintings.

— Danny Fox

We must...forge partnerships with those around us, and begin to dismantle the myth of solitary perfection.

— Debora Spar

There is something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on earth but not quite.

— John C. Reilly

“To wander solitary there: Two paradises ‘twere in one To live in paradise alone.”

— Andrew Marvell

“He longed for smut, but heard little and contributed less, and his chief indecencies were solitary.”

— E.M. Forster

Research and writing are lonely occupations. It is easy to become discouraged in solitary confinement.

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

I am alternately very gregarious - very sociable - and then very solitary.

— Fran Lebowitz

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

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

If a man wants to be of the greatest possible value to his fellow-creature s let him begin the long, solitary task…

— Robertson Davies

Westward, beyond the still pleasant, but, even then, no longer solitary, hamlet of Charing, a broad space, broken here and there by…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Charles Darwin [is my personal favorite Fellow of the Royal Society]. I suppose as a physical scientist I ought to have chosen…

— Martin Rees

I am lost without you. I am soulless, a drifter without a home, a solitary bird in a flight to nowhere. I…

— Nicholas Sparks

I cannot love evergreens - they are the misanthropes of nature. To them the spring brings no promise, the autumn no decline;…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others -- poor young clerks who loitered…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

— Kevin Hearne

I see Edward Snowden as someone who has chosen, at best, exile from the country he loves-with a serious risk of his…

— Daniel Ellsberg

To most observers, innovation is a solitary process that requires creativity and genius, perhaps even greatness. It can't, in their view, be…

— Richard J. Foster

They had stopped now and he gave a glance up at the sky, through the trees, as though to see how much…

— Kathleen Winsor

A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any other period - When March is scarcely here A Color…

— Emily Dickinson

“We are all, in the last analysis, alone. And this basic state of solitude is not something we have any choice about.…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Look, then, upon the modern metropolis in which people are packed together and yet remain strangers. In the subway, underground or "tube"…

— Anonymous

And again there are no words. Words exist that can, used by a poet, achieve a dim monochrome of the body's love,…

— John Wyndham

Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It's amazing how much can be…

— Emily Giffin

Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and…

— Hugh Blair

Every one of the aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the war…

— Eugene V. Debs

Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“When you are a solitary kid you find an imaginary friend.”

— Jeanette Winterson

My life is not merely a public phenomenon, it is a solitary adventure as well.

— Tom Robbins

Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and silence.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence.

— Ewan McGregor

The life of a solitary man will be certainly miserable, but not certainly devout.

— Samuel Johnson

The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Some people think the real them is whoever they are when they're not around other people.”

— Garth Risk Hallberg