Solitary man Quote by Neil Diamond Download Open image “After four years of Freudian analysis I realised I had written Solitary Man about myself.” — Neil Diamond ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Solitary man
And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts. — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
I was deeply identified with a very unhappy, egoic entity I believed was "me." For years I lived in depression and continuous anxiety. One… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I'm a practised writer now. But when I began, I had no idea what this was going to be. I just knew that there… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
All along, I've been writing about our fears, our longings, our fantasies, our ambivalences. When I decided to study psychoanalysis, I did it because… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
And now I was lonelier, I supposed, than anyone else in the world. Even Defoe's creation, Robinson Crusoe, the prototype of the ideal solitary,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I thought of myself as a writer for years before I got around to writing anything. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I don't feel I have to write deep and meaningful songs; they can be light and meaningless. It has to do with the place… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
You can't plan to write a great song. It just happens to you. It drops in your lap. It's the same thing with a… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
The cardinal rule for any performer is that they should know themselves before they enter the spotlight, and I didn't. I was just Neil… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
“BE Lost On a painted sky Where the clouds are hung For the poet's eye You may find him If you may find him… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
Well, I Am... I Said was a very difficult song, very difficult because I really had to spend a lot of time thinking about… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything. — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
One of the things I've been panting to do, in fact, is write some music for a fencing-ballet, the movements, music and staging would… — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest. — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
Whatever success I've had so far has been assimilated into my body and mind. — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
“In solitude the solitary man consumes himself, in the crowd the crowd consumes him.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Prophets, mystics, poets, scientific discoverers are men whose lives are dominated by a vision; they are essentially solitary men . . . whose thoughts… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“All human activity is subject to habitualization. Any action that is repeated frequently becomes cast into a pattern, which can then be reproduced with… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
“A man who is awake in the open field at night or who wanders over silent paths experiences the world differently than by day.… — Walter F. Otto Copy Share Image
For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves.… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The life of a solitary man will be certainly miserable, but not certainly devout. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Christian society is like a bundle of sticks laid together, whereof one kindles another. Solitary men have fewest provocations to evil, but, again, fewest… — Joseph Hall 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
The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such… — Dan Hill Copy Share Image
The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I sat, a solitary man, In a crowded London shop, An open book and empty cup On the marble table-top. While on the shop… — Anonymous Copy Share Image