“It was I, no less solitary than he but having made the lesser use of the morning, who was to be pitied.” — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Collaboration is a nice change of pace from the often solitary nature of the writer's craft. — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
The writing process for me is pretty much always the same - it's a solitary experience. — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
“We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all.” — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life. — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“But Socrates cannot but have been meditating upon something?... Can he ever remain solitary with himself -- and silent to his very… — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. The social emotions it generates are… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
“Are you in love? What makes your heart beat faster? What do you want people to think about when they hear your… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
In some way impossible to ascertain, after so many years of absense, Jose Arcadio was still an autumnal child, terribly sad and… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The New Testament does not envisage solitary religion; regular assembly for worship is everywhere in the epistles. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A solitary maple on a woodside flames in single scarlet, recalls nothing so much as the daughter of a noble house dressed… — Henry James Copy Share Image
I really do enjoy getting out to meet my readers. Writing is such a solitary business, it's gratifying to thank folks in… — Christie Golden Copy Share Image
It's weird, I love acting and stand-up is a very unique, solitary thing where you are the writer, performer and director. But… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
Solitary people, these book lovers. I think it's swell that there are people you don't have to worry about when you don't… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
It is a sign of our times, conspicuous to the coarsest observer, that many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He that has no present Christ has a future, dark, chaotic, heaving with its destructive ocean; and over it there goes forever--black-pinioned… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
Most visual artists, just like most writers, tend to be solitary. While they're doing the art, that is. They may have a… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
As President, I was able to save with the stroke of the pen a hundred million acres of wilderness area in Alaska.… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Everybody sees me as a solitary entity but I long to be important to somebody It's a love of fairy tales that… — Happy Rhodes Copy Share Image
Running is a road to self-awareness and reliance-you can push yourself to extremes and learn the harsh reality of your physical and… — Doris Brown Heritage Copy Share Image
The appearance presented by the streets of London an hour before sunrise, on a summer's morning, is most striking even to the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“The world can understand well enough the process of perishing for want of food: perhaps few persons can enter into or follow… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Anyway, solitary people interest me. There are so many different ways of being solitary.' 'I know just what you mean,' said X.… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
“We can't stand it, to be alone. We cannot bear it, any more than the monks of old could bear it, men… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
"The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“O you singer, solitary, singing by yourself—projecting me; O solitary me, listening—nevermore shall I cease perpetuating you; Never more shall I escape,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
In the streets and in society I am almost invariably cheap and dissipated, my life is unspeakably mean. No amount of gold… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What a position of transcendent horror must that be, where the perpetrator of a great crime, till then a stranger to positive… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
[Liberty] is a choreand a long-distance race, quite solitary, quite exhausting. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I would say to today's young minister, 'Be not afraid to give much time to solitary walks and meditation'. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
I think I'm a very solitary person. To actually not be anonymous is a bit claustrophobic for me. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Bradley Manning has been imprisoned without charge, under torture, which is what solitary confinement is. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Writing is a solitary occupation; we don't really have any colleagues. — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image