“To love makes one solitary, she thought. She could tell nobody, not even Septimus now...” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“You’re used to being the smartest guy in the room. Solitary confinement will do that.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I had no idea how complicated and solitary it could be to write a simple book. — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary? — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together: they like being solitary together. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men. — Emile M. Cioran 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
The temple of Ceres should be in a solitary spot out of the city, to which the public are not necessarily led… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely… — Paul Kane Copy Share Image
And if, happy in the lot of no created thing, he withdraws into the center of his own unity, his spirit, made… — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Copy Share Image
Well I've been writing books. So that, by its nature, is kind of a solitary occupation. And from time to time I… — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
As I paint, I realise, while it's something I do very much by myself, it's very solitary, the creative process feels similar… — Black Francis Copy Share Image
Plato conceived of philosophy as necessarily gregarious rather than solitary. The exposure of presumptions is best done in company, the more argumentative… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Writing is solitary, so I love going out once in a while and meeting my readers. I'll often hang with them after… — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
I don't need money, or, better, it's not money that I need; it's not even power; I need only what is obtained… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Very few people can write in a crowd. This is a very solitary occupation. I have known people more talented than me… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. ...… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“If you could say, with truth, to your own solitary heart, to-night, 'I have secured to myself the love and attachment, the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Nicholas Temelcoff is famous on the bridge, a daredevil. He is given all the difficult jobs and he takes them. He descends… — Michael Ondaatje 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
There are so many different elements to surfing. Small waves, big waves, long boards, short boards. This makes it a sport you… — Kelly Slater 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
I am not prepared to deny or assert any proposition which concerns myself; but certainly this solitary struggle with platitudinous atoms, called… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Then I speak to her in a language she has never heard, I speak to her in Spanish, in the tongue of… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
...solitary like a pool at evening, far distant, seen from a train window, vanishing so quickly that the pool, pale in the… — Virginia Woolf 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
Meetings are held because men seek companionship or, at a minimum, wish to escape the tedium of solitary duties. They yearn for… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Nothing takes you out of yourself the way a good book does, but at the same time nothing makes you more aware… — Wendy Lesser 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
My life is a very interior and solitary life. I tend not to care that much about external things. — Joyce Carol Oates 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
