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472 Solitary quotes by 381 unique authors

Perhaps it was Maggie, perhaps not. In solitary moments magpies will perch on a branch and mutter soft soliloquies of whines and squeals and chatterings,… — Stanley Crawford
What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours-that is what you… — Rainer Maria Rilke
I write in praise of the solitary act: of not feeling a trespassing tongue forced into one's mouth, one's breath smothered, nipples crushed against the… — Fleur Adcock
Mark all Mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how… — Roger Ascham
We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain. — Edward Dahlberg
Our Lord Jesus is ever giving, and does not for a solitary instant withdraw his hand. As long as there is a vessel of grace… — Charles Spurgeon
My life is not merely a public phenomenon, it is a solitary adventure as well. — Tom Robbins
Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships; they are quite unrelatable. — Elizabeth Bowen
The BIBLE - banned, burned, beloved. More widely read, more frequently attacked than any other book in history. Generations of intellectuals have attempted to discredit it, dictators… — Charles Colson
Today I live on an island, in a house that is sad, hard, severe, that I built for myself, solitary on a sheer rock over… — Unknown Author
Composition has almost always been solitary. — Wendy Carlos
You see if you tell yourself the same tale over and over again enough times then the tellings become separate stories and you will generally… — Kaye Gibbons
Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers. — Robert Wyatt
For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand. — Beatrix Potter
Silence is a very concrete, practical, and useful discipline in all our ministerial tasks. It can be seen as a portable cell taken with us from… — Henri Nouwen
If any of [my stories] succeed in causing their readers to feel pleasantly uncomfortable when walking along a solitary road at nightfall, or sitting over… — M. R. James
There are a few exceptions, however, to this rule that our projection of ourselves is lower than the facts of Nature, and the unicorn --… — Odell Shepard
I wish I could have lived just one day when the world was new. I wish—I wish I could have reaped just one single, solitary,… — Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not… — Sylvia Kristel
Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places. — Henry Beston
When he grew old, Aristotle, who is not generally considered a tightrope dancer, liked to lose himself in the most labyrinthine and subtle of discourses… — Michel de Certeau
There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured… — Richard Thompson
In mature years I have always been gregarious, a lover of my kind, dependent upon the company of friends for the very pulse of moral… — Edmund Gosse
Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language, making the creative… — Hilma Wolitzer
The passage into mystery always refreshes. If, when we work, we can look once a day upon the face of mystery, then our labor satisfies.… — Lewis Hyde

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