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472 Solitary quotes by 381 unique authors

The vain being is the really solitary being. — Berthold Auerbach
Writing a book is incredibly pleasurable, but very solitary. You have total control, but sometimes that can drive you insane. — Justin Halpern
I'm consumed by the chill of solitary. — Alanis Morissette
A solitary traveler can sleep from state to state, from day to night, from day to day, in the long womb of its controlled interior.… — Lisa St. Aubin de TerÃ¡n
Writing is a solitary occupation. — Bernard Cornwell
I'm the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to the community and… — Ariel Dorfman
From whence, then, could arise the solitary and strange conceit that the Almighty, who had millions of worlds equally dependant on His protection, should quit… — Thomas Paine
Let the moon shine on the in thy solitary walk; and let the misty mountain-winds be free to blow against thee. — William Wordsworth
It's the same thing in a way, although writing a book is a very solitary thing. — Neil Jordan
I have always written about characters who fall somewhere in the spectrum between solitary and totally alienated. — Nicole Krauss
I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home. — Henry David Thoreau
If an American is motoring on his own, he (the paragon of morality and chastity) will slow down and stop beside every solitary pretty female… — Vladimir Mayakovsky
The New Testament does not envisage solitary religion; regular assembly for worship is everywhere in the epistles. — C.S. Lewis
I felt a funeral in my brain, and mourners to and fro kept treading, treading till I felt that sense was breaking through. And when… — Andrew Solomon
When I'm away from basketball, I'm the biggest kid. I do a good job of keeping myself sane. But on the other hand, I'm more… — Tim Duncan
A characteristic thing about the aspiring immigrant is the fact that he is not content to progress alone. Solitary success is imperfect success in his… — Mary Antin
Some writing is a really nice solitary process, in a way, because you can be a little self-conscious around other people. If it's just you,… — Marketa Irglova
My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary walk in the… — Immanuel Velikovsky
The solitary side of our nature demands leisure for reflection upon subjects on which the dash and whirl of daily business, so long as its… — James Anthony Froude
The mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country, from every solitary… — Henry David Thoreau
In order to get one of the greatest inventions of the modern age, in other words, we thought we needed the solitary genius. But if… — Malcolm Gladwell
I've been talking about income inequality in America for twenty years, and when I was president, people didn't pay much attention to it, probably because… — William J. Clinton
The love of fame is too high and delicate a feeling in the mind to be mixed up with realities, it is a solitary abstraction.… — William Hazlitt
Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The painter or draftsman ought to be solitary, in order that the well-being of the body not sap the vigour of the mind. — Leonardo da Vinci

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