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472 Solitary quotes by 381 unique authors

The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time. — Rabindranath Tagore
Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that… — Francis Quarles
When I was growing up, books took me away from my life to a solitary place that didn't feel lonely. They celebrated the outcasts, people… — Jodie Foster
Cavendish was a great Man with extraordinary singularities-His voice was squeaking his manner nervous He was afraid of strangers & seemed when embarrassed to articulate… — Humphry Davy
[He] would drive his sculling boat through mile after mile, in a silent brutal programe of conditioning - he would work all alone, at first… — Daniel Topolski
Françoise could not help taking a surreptitious glance at Xavière: she gave a start of amazement. Xavière was no longer watching, her head was lowered.… — Simone de Beauvoir
But should we continue to linger amid a scene so featureless and wild, or venture adown some yawning opening into the abyss beneath, where all… — Hugh Miller
He [Zampano] probably would of insisted on corrections and edits, he was his own harshest critic, but I've come to believe errors, especially written errors,… — Mark Z. Danielewski
The grey nurse resumed her knitting as Peter Walsh, on the hot seat beside her, began snoring. In her grey dress, moving her hands indefatigably… — Virginia Woolf
What can I do now? What am I to become? How can I live in this world I'm condemned to but can't endure? They couldn't… — Anna Kavan
To the lover the loved one always appears as solitary. — Walter Benjamin
In the mythic tradition, the Mountain is the bond between Earth and Sky. Its solitary summit reaches the sphere of eternity, and its base spreads… — Rene Daumal
Children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way-and if you think of your childhood, you… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of true repentance. — Charles Spurgeon
I found solitary confinement the most forbidding aspect of prison life. There is no end and no beginning; there is only one's mind, which can… — Nelson Mandela
The man who follows Christ in solitary mourning is greater than he who praises Christ amid the congregation of men. — Isaac of Nineveh
One of the things that I wound up loving about being involved with a bike racer was learning how to bike and how that really… — Sheryl Crow
For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And… — Hermann Hesse
We were now arrived at the close of our solitary journeyings along the St. Joseph's trail. — Francis Parkman
It's all still there in heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in… — Edward Abbey
Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day,… — Armstrong Williams
Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life. — Robert A. Heinlein
Many male habitues of massage parlors, like Talese, did not like solitary masturbation; in the parlance of the younger generation, it was a "downer." And… — Gay Talese
If you spit in my face and smack me in the mouth and throw me into solitary confinement for nothing... what do you think's gonna… — Charles Manson
Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors — Confucius

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