Solitary Quotes · Page 2

I'm quite a solitary person. I like being on my own.

— Kathy Burke

I'm a pretty solitary type of person.

— Limmy

You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.

— Ovid

Editing is kind of a solitary job.

— Joe Dante

The artist after all is a solitary being.

— Virginia Woolf

Lots of creativity is and should be solitary.

— Geoff Mulgan

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

— Eugene O'Neill

I'm consumed by the chill of solitary.

— Alanis Morissette

“We’re solitary by nature. Aren’t we? Even families … Fundamentally, I mean.”

— Sarah Hilary

“Dying is a very solitary thing. The only thing we can do it be there when she wants us there.”

— Lois Lowry

The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.

— Emile M. Cioran

I had no idea how complicated and solitary it could be to write a simple book.

— Jenny Lawson

I'm such a solitary person that working on my own is perfect for me.

— Jane Fallon

The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.

— Gaston Bachelard

I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.

— Dan Farmer

I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden.

— Hayley Mills

“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

I've never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone.…

— Keith Richards

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

I will say that my days are spent solitary and somewhat lost in thought, and every single time I inadvertently wear my…

— Douglas Coupland

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

She had been a solitary child, and then solitary as a woman, drawn into an orbit of her own that took her…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

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

. . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had…

— Charles Dickens

Perhaps the rediscovery of our humanity, and the potential of the human spirit which we have read about in legends of older…

— Pierre Trudeau

“They all occupied the same space but did not occupy it together. Imagine a thousand leaves of tracing paper, each with one…

— Doug Dorst

“Imagine someone sitting alone in a room without television, radio, computer or phone and with the door closed and the blinds down.…

— Michael Foley

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

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

I begin to fully understand the lengths to which people have gone to protect me. What I mean to the rebels. My…

— Suzanne Collins

“ Cavendish was a great Man with extraordinary singularities—His voice was squeaking his manner nervous He was afraid of strangers & seemed…

— Humphry Davy

...solitary like a pool at evening, far distant, seen from a train window, vanishing so quickly that the pool, pale in the…

— Virginia Woolf

Then I speak to her in a language she has never heard, I speak to her in Spanish, in the tongue of…

— Pablo Neruda

I am not prepared to deny or assert any proposition which concerns myself; but certainly this solitary struggle with platitudinous atoms, called…

— Henry Adams

Our Lord Jesus is ever giving, and does not for a solitary instant withdraw his hand. As long as there is a…

— Charles Spurgeon

“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

“I am not poor, I am not rich; nihil est, nihil deest, I have little, I want nothing: all my treasure is…

— Robert Burton

The solitary ascent of the Dru had the immediate effect of expanding the horizons of my ideas about mountaineering. It made me…

— Walter Bonatti