The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“In solitude the solitary man consumes himself, in the crowd the crowd consumes him.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The life of a solitary man will be certainly miserable, but not certainly devout. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
After four years of Freudian analysis I realised I had written Solitary Man about myself. — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
“I am a lone wolf, a solitary man, wandering through a world in which I have no part.” — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I am a . . . solitary . . . man, he said. 'I do not suffer fools gladly, and I prefer… — Andrew Lane Copy Share Image
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
Prophets, mystics, poets, scientific discoverers are men whose lives are dominated by a vision; they are essentially solitary men . . .… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“On a pitch black, starless night, a solitary man was trudging along the main road from Marchiennes to Montsou, ten kilometres of… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess,… — Dan Hill Copy Share Image
The wild bird that flies so lone and far has somewhere its nest and brood. A little fluttering heart of love impels… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
That character in Solitary Man is probably most like me in real life: a solid person who has a good head on… — Jenna Fischer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The ineffable utterance of one solitary man, absent, perhaps dead (Swann did not know whether Vinteuil were still alive), breathed out above… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Do I dare disturb the universe? Yes, I do, I do. I think. Jerry suddenly understood the poster--the solitary man on the… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
“The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
I sat, a solitary man, In a crowded London shop, An open book and empty cup On the marble table-top. While on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Christian society is like a bundle of sticks laid together, whereof one kindles another. Solitary men have fewest provocations to evil, but,… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
“All human activity is subject to habitualization. Any action that is repeated frequently becomes cast into a pattern, which can then be… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
But everything that may some day be possible to many the solitary man can now prepare and build with his hands, that… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“A man who is awake in the open field at night or who wanders over silent paths experiences the world differently than… — Walter F. Otto Copy Share Image
“The idea of love walked along the water and her gaze was full of absence and her eyes spat lighting. The impressionable… — André Breton Copy Share Image
“Only rarely, at the end of our century, does life offer up a vision as pure and peaceful as this one: a… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
“An enemy soldier never seemed to be alone--one human being like any other--but followed, crushed from all directions by innumerable ghosts, the… — Irène Némirovsky Copy Share Image
