Solitary Quotes

I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner.

In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

It's the same thing in a way, although writing a book is a very solitary thing.

If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.

Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives.

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.

The wailing owl Screams solitary to the mournful moon.

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.

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 being solitary.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.

The writing process for me is pretty much always the same - it's a solitary experience.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

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 poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.

I suppose directing on set is the most fun because it's a good crack and you feel you're on the battlefield whereas writing is a fairly solitary undertaking.

The most solitary I ever felt was when I was living in New York. I used to live in Enrico Caruso's old apartment, and I had a special staircase that took me up to the roof. There was nobody up there.

I do not think that Mulder trusts any one other than Scully. He s very solitary. She is the only one who takes him seriously. I don t know if they re in love. In a way, their relationship is deeper than that, because they cannot live without each other.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

When you've written a movie, you then get together with a whole lot of people and make it. In many ways, I think it is far nicer to be with people rather than being completely solitary.

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.