Solitary Quotes · Page 27

what sets wilderness apart in the modern day is not that it's dangerous (it's almost certainly safer than any town or road)…

— Bill McKibben

[Having] appropriated to itself all conscious intelligence in the universe ...Man faces the existential crisis of being a solitary and mortal conscious…

— Richard Tarnas

Françoise could not help taking a surreptitious glance at Xavière: she gave a start of amazement. Xavière was no longer watching, her…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Being a writer is a solitary life. So the little part of me that's an actor still enjoys the theatrical part of…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on…

— Albert Camus

“If we seek solitary retreat, you will be more often refreshed.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

A color stands abroad on solitary hills that silence cannot overtake, but human nature feels.

— Emily Dickinson

As a child, I was an observer, a listener for the stories of grown-ups. I led a quiet, solitary life with my…

— Susan Shreve

“Within each person is the miracle of a unique consciousness unlike any other in the universe.”

— Bryant McGill

The power to share has already turned once-solitary activities into social occasions.

— Melinda Blau

Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is celebrated with champagne...Oh no! It's a...long distance race, quite solitary and very…

— Albert Camus

I have always shook with fright before human beings. Unable as I was to feel the least particle of confidence in my…

— Osamu Dazai

Can I love someone...and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight, beating wings.

— Susan Sontag

A solitary being is by instinct a wanderer.

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

A pretext-not a cause-is sufficient for us to enter the "solitary situation", the situation of the dreaming solitude. In this solitude, memories…

— Gaston Bachelard

God sees everything at once and knows what you are called to do. Our part is not to play God, but to…

— Zig Ziglar

Perhaps the sad and empty language that today's flabby humanity pours forth, will, in all its horror, in all its boundless absurdity,…

— Arthur Adamov

How could someone possibly be that beautiful? She wondered for the hundred thousandth time. What higher power orchestrated such a perfect union…

— Lauren Weisberger

You have to remember that writing itself is so solitary. You start writing because you're lonely.

— Sandra Cisneros

For most people, what is so painful about reading is that you read something and you don't have anybody to share it…

— Bell Hooks

[MTV] just wanted a regular person that knew a decent amount about music.I'm so used to doing solitary interviews. You have some…

— Jancee Dunn

To the lover the loved one always appears as solitary.

— Walter Benjamin

I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't…

— Mark Twain

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

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Survivors do not mourn together. They each mourn alone, even when in the same place. Grief is the most solitary of all…

— Steven Erikson