“In solitude the solitary man consumes himself, in the crowd the crowd consumes him.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone. — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
Watching the moon at midnight, solitary, mid-sky, I knew myself completely, no part left out. — Izumi Shikibu Copy Share Image
We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain. — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Writing is such a solitary existence, and I can only do it late at night. — Paul O'Grady Copy Share Image
There's definitely a solitary aspect to not having a band, and there are times when I wish that I did. — Grimes Copy Share Image
“We’re solitary by nature. Aren’t we? Even families … Fundamentally, I mean.” — Sarah Hilary Copy Share Image
“Solitary muttering allows you to say all those things you don't have the courage to say to all those people who are… — Suzanne Selfors Copy Share Image
The inner chambers of the soul are like the photographer's darkroom. Like a laboratory. One cannot stay there all the time or… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
My father died when I was 9 years old. The miserable condition of my family at that time is beyond description. My… — Chiang Kai-shek Copy Share Image
Nothing is rarer than a solitary lie; for lies breed like Surinam toads; you cannot tell one but out it comes with… — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
I saw above a sea of hills A solitary planet shine, And there was no one, near or far, to keep the… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
It's true that writing is a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
When I sing, it's the most solitary state: just me, and the microphone, and the holy spirit. It's not about notes or… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
“If it be the will of God," said my wife, "to leave us alone on this solitary place, let us be content;… — Johann David Wyss Copy Share Image
“I am often reminded how a small fire underneath a vast sky can bind people together like nothing else. For all that… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
I cannot love evergreens - they are the misanthropes of nature. To them the spring brings no promise, the autumn no decline;… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others -- poor young clerks who loitered… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Charles Darwin [is my personal favorite Fellow of the Royal Society]. I suppose as a physical scientist I ought to have chosen… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
The stars are forth, the moon above the tops Of the snow-shining mountains--beautiful! I linger yet with nature, for the night Hath… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
. . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The essence of modernity is that progress no longer waits on genius; instead we have learned to put our faith in the… — William Wickenden Copy Share Image
“have no interest in love, no time for comfort and no tolerance for commitment. My career is probably one of the most… — Lily White Copy Share Image
“The solitary speaks."One receives as a reward for much ennui , ill-humour and boredom, such as a solitude without friends, books, duties… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Life is a solitary confinement , Every second is a punishment - of a crime , that was never committed , Or… — BinYamin Gulzar Copy Share Image
Meetings are held because men seek companionship or, at a minimum, wish to escape the tedium of solitary duties. They yearn for… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“ Cavendish was a great Man with extraordinary singularities—His voice was squeaking his manner nervous He was afraid of strangers & seemed… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image