There is something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on earth but not quite. — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“Some people think the real them is whoever they are when they're not around other people.” — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and silence. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I have a nice little office, with a nice little window in it, but I do basically spend huge amounts of time… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience.… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
“Creating is often a solitary experience. Yet work made entirely in isolation is usually doomed to remain lonely.” — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Et Tu, Babe' was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer's life was solitary and insular, and I was happy… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
I am not only retired from all public employments, but I am retiring within myself, and shall be able to view the… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Writing is such a solitary occupation that it takes a long time to build up a group of professional peers with whom… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
It's taken me a long time to work out what people are thinking and what they're expecting. I am naturally solitary, and… — Anne Hegerty 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
"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
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
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
[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
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
She didn't want to go far, just out of the trees so she could see the stars. They always eased her loneliness.… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
Writing can be a very solitary profession, and when deadlines are looming, it's tempting to glue myself to my desk, but I… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The years passed like the steps of a staircase leading lower and lower. I did not walk any more in the sun… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
Every man that tried to destroy the Government, every man that shot at the holy flag in heaven, every man that starved… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try… — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
Every one of the aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the war… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
And again there are no words. Words exist that can, used by a poet, achieve a dim monochrome of the body's love,… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It's amazing how much can be… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and… — Hugh Blair Copy Share Image
My life is not merely a public phenomenon, it is a solitary adventure as well. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I like the idea of being a sculptor. Just me alone, making something - that solitary existence. — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
The life of a solitary man will be certainly miserable, but not certainly devout. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“That's when I realize how much I don't want to be alone, how sobbing should not be a solitary sport..” — Carrie Jones Copy Share Image
the whistle of the old steam trains ... could conjure up visions of bleak distances with one solitary wail. — M.C. Beaton Copy Share Image
A cigar numbs sorrow and fills the solitary hours with a million gracious images. — George Sand Copy Share Image
“You want to be there for me but an anxiety attack is a solitary activity.” — R. YS Perez Copy Share Image