Solitary Quotes

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything. (Willa Cather)
The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable. View quote
Karl Kraus
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. View quote
Billie Holiday
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. View quote
Tennessee Williams
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. View quote
Laura Welch Bush
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. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
If you are idle, be not solitary if you are solitary, be not idle. View quote
Samuel Johnson
We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict. View quote
Jim Morrison
Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors. View quote
Eugene O'Neill
Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves. View quote
George Eliot
He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window. (Henry James)
Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help The notice which you have been pleased to take care of my labors, had it been early, had been kind but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it till I am solitary, and cannot impart it till I am known, and do not want it. View quote
Samuel Johnson
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. View quote
Maya Angelou
It's true that it's a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know them. View quote
Anne Tyler
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. View quote
Virginia Woolf
Consider what you have in the smallest well-chosen librarya company of the wisest and wittiest men which can be plucked out of all civilized countries in a thousand years. The men themselves were then hidden and inaccessible. They were solitary, impatient of interruption, and fenced by etiquette. But now they are immortal, and the thought they did not reveal, even to their bosom friends, is here written out in transparent words of light to us, who are strangers of another age. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes They love a train, they tread each other's heel. View quote
Edward Young
It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. View quote
Winston Churchill
If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you. View quote
Martha Beck
The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost. (M. Scott Peck)
No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers. View quote
Laurie Colwin
There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth, but not quite. View quote
John C. Reilly
My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary walk in the forested hills. He selected it from a verse of the seventh chapter of Isaiah; there was no Immanuel among our ancestors known to him. View quote
Immanuel Velikovsky
Reading was my first solitary vice (and led to all others). I read while I ate, I read in the loo, I read in the bath. When I was supposed to be sleeping, I was reading. View quote
Germaine Greer