Solitary Quotes - page 3

Writing, at its heart, is a solitary pursuit, designed to make people depressoids, drug addicts, misanthropes, and antisocial weirdos. (Mindy Kaling)
Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own. I've never minded about it. View quote
Sebastian Faulks
True solidarity is only possible among the solitary. View quote
Jose Bergamin
Writing is always a solitary experience, but living, if you're lucky, is not. View quote
Beth Harbison
I have always shook with fright before human beings. Unable as I was to feel the least particle of confidence in my ability to speak and act like a human being, I kept my solitary agonies locked in my breast. I kept my melancholy and my agitation hidden, careful lest any trace should be left exposed. I feigned an innocent optimism; I gradually perfected myself in the role of the farcical eccentric. View quote
Osamu Dazai
I'm somewhat of a solitary person. View quote
Christopher Lloyd
The Holy Spirit showed me that when I put up walls to keep others out I also wall myself into solitary place of confinement. View quote
Joyce Meyer
Editing is kind of a solitary job. View quote
Joe Dante
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. View quote
Neil Jordan
It's the same thing in a way, although writing a book is a very solitary thing. View quote
Neil Jordan
Watching the moon at midnight, solitary, mid-sky, I knew myself completely, no part left out. (Izumi Shikibu)
For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and most beautiful of all. View quote
Isabelle Eberhardt
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. View quote
Richard Thompson
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, yet still find time to interact with their children. View quote
Armstrong Williams
Painting and writing are solitary arts. View quote
Conrad Hall
The wailing owl Screams solitary to the mournful moon. View quote
David Mallet
I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden. View quote
Hayley Mills
There are so many different elements to surfing. Small waves, big waves, long boards, short boards. This makes it a sport you can share with people. It's not just a solitary thing - it's become a family thing, too. It's about exercising and passing something on from father to son, and from mother to daughter. View quote
Kelly Slater
I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading. View quote
Lynda Barry
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. View quote
Paul Kane
I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers. (Robert Wyatt)
Composition has almost always been solitary. View quote
Wendy Carlos
While all these are disturbed and divided by the multifarious objects to which their thoughts must be applied, the Philosopher pursues, in solitary silence and in unbroken concentration of mind, his single and undeviating course towards the Good, the Beautiful, and the True; and that is his daily labour, to which others can only resort at times for rest and refreshment after toil. View quote
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
A solitary man is a God, or a beast. View quote
Pythagoras
Sex is not part of a relationship, but is, to the contrary, a solitary experience as well as being non-creative and a gross waste of time. The female can easily - far more easily than she may think - condition her sex drive away, leaving her completely cool and cerebral and free to pursue truly worthy relationships and activities; but the male, who seems to dig women sexually and who seeks constantly to arouse them, stimulates the highly-sexed female to frenzies of lust, throwing her into a sex bag from which few women ever escape. The lecherous male excites the lustful female; he has to - when the female transcends her body, rises above animalism, the male, whose ego consists of his cock, will disappear. View quote
Valerie Solanas