When you're writing, it's a very solitary job. It's you and your word processor and a cup of tea. — Paul W. S. Anderson Copy Share Image
I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“I like walking in the solitary dark street than the crowded shining street.” — Vinod Varghese Antony Copy Share Image
Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
There is part of us that stands in quiet witness to what we do, taking notes, waiting for a solitary moment to… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Writing is such a solitary thing, so its nice, when Im discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction. — Robert Boswell 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
If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
I am a bit of a solitude person - a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don't have any… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Mark all Mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
“Jacob opened the refrigerator and stared into it vacantly, with the false purposefulness that lingers for a few moments when a person… — Caleb Crain Copy Share Image
From whence, then, could arise the solitary and strange conceit that the Almighty, who had millions of worlds equally dependant on His… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
After reading Howitt's account of the Australian gold-diggings one evening,... I asked myself why I might not be washing some golddaily, though… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
[He] would drive his sculling boat through mile after mile, in a silent brutal programe of conditioning - he would work all… — Daniel Topolski Copy Share Image
Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms,… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
"The flowers have appeared in our land: the time of pruning is come: the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
One solitary God-centered, God-intoxicated man can do more to keep God's love alive and His presence felt in the world than a… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
But we are as other men, exactly. Of one blood, one species, one brain, one figure, one fundamental set of collective instincts,… — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
Shouldn't the American leadership be addressing what is happening in America, with its domestic policies on racism, discrimination, illegal monitoring, solitary confinement,… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
There was something formless and perfect before the universe was born. It is serene. Empty. Solitary. Unchanging. Infinite. Eternally present. It is… — Laozi Copy Share Image
A solitary American monk named Thomas Berry writes that in our relationship to nature, we have been autistic for centuries. Wrapped tightly… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
“It did not occur to me that absence of human companionship does not assure solitude. It may, on the contrary, plunge one… — Julian Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Over the years, I've found that I either live life or write about it. I can't seem to do both simultaneously -… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
When we haven't the time to listen to each other's stories we seek out experts to tell us how to live. The… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
As a young boy, Charles Darwin made friends easily but preferred to spend his time taking long, solitary nature walks. (As an… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“It scares us more than anything except death. Being alone. Our fear of solitude is so ingrained that given the choice of… — Lionel Fisher Copy Share Image