Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together: they like being solitary together. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Dying is a very solitary thing. The only thing we can do it be there when she wants us there.” — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“We’re solitary by nature. Aren’t we? Even families … Fundamentally, I mean.” — Sarah Hilary Copy Share Image
There's definitely a solitary aspect to not having a band, and there are times when I wish that I did. — Grimes Copy Share Image
I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden. — Hayley Mills Copy Share Image
I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea. — Dan Farmer Copy Share Image
Creativity is not a solitary process. It happens within networks... when talented people get together, when idea systems and mentalities merge. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
I had a deprived childhood, you see. I had lots of other kids to play with and my parents bought me outdoor… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
I think for me it's just a matter of staying keyed into my lifelong friends from New York and family. And, you… — Debra Messing Copy Share Image
He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on… — Henry James Copy Share Image
With no companion but the constant Muse, Who sought me when I needed her ah, when Did I not need her, solitary… — Richard Henry Stoddard Copy Share Image
“Works of art are infinitely solitary and nothing is less likely to reach them than criticism. Only love can grasp them and… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
As a very small child I found recorded noise and the solitary singer beneath the spotlight so dramatic and so brave... walking… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Serious or trivial, his daily behavior has instituted a canon which millions observe this day with conscious memory. No one regarded by… — David George Hogarth Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to mankind comes from the renunciation of individual scruple in favor of institutional denominators. . . . Real heroism… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
In America, a metrical poem is likely to conjure up the idea of the sort of poet who wears ties and lunches… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I am often asked if I am not lonely on my solitary excursions. It seems so self-evident that one cannot be lonesome… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“Writing is a solitary venture. Making use of a soundless void in the vortex of time the author enters the realm of… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“ Cavendish was a great Man with extraordinary singularities—His voice was squeaking his manner nervous He was afraid of strangers & seemed… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
The Shah regarded politics as the province of demagoguery, an art in which only charlatans could excel. He had no time for… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
Our Lord Jesus is ever giving, and does not for a solitary instant withdraw his hand. As long as there is a… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Why should I blame her that she filled my days With misery, or that she would of late Have taught to ignorant… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
A prisoner lived in solitary confinement for years. He saw and spoke to no one and his meals were served through an… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
And now I was lonelier, I supposed, than anyone else in the world. Even Defoe's creation, Robinson Crusoe, the prototype of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“have no interest in love, no time for comfort and no tolerance for commitment. My career is probably one of the most… — Lily White 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
“Don’t be afraid of being alone; remember, when the sun rises, it rises with nobody at its side.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
The Truth is in the prolouge. Death to the romantic fool., the expert in solitary confinement. — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image