Solitary Quotes

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

Good, Found, Seen

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

Strong, Grow, Trees

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
Jim Morrison

Fear, Pain, Feelings

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
Maya Angelou

Lucky, Million, Fantasy

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.
Alice Koller

Alone, Others, Rather

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.
Franz Kafka

Wait, Choice, Leave

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.
Henry Ward Beecher

Strength, Strong, Greatest

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

Change, Good, History

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

Life, Inside, Skins

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.
Jodie Foster

Great, War, Experience

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.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Good, Reason, Difficult

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.
Steve Martin

Alone, Romantic, Person

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.
Virginia Woolf

Experience, Single, Thinking

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Washington Irving

Through, Working, Minds

The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.
Emile M. Cioran

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

Family, Men, Everything

Having animals in the city is entirely different from having animals out in the country. For one thing, it's more social. When you live on lots of acres without neighbors within a stone's throw, your dog-walks are usually solitary rambles over hill and dale.
Susan Orlean

Live, Different, Country

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.
David Duchovny

Love, Live, Him

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.
Thomas Mann

Once, Less, Mental

For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.
Erwin Schrodinger

Community, Virtue, Animal

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.
Tom Wolfe

Life, Men, Loneliness

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

Help, Understand, Living

The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
Cyril Connolly

Food, Worst, Worship

It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.
Gary Oldman

Funny, Play, Piano

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.
Robert Duvall

Live, Living, Special

The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Reality, Through, Free

Well I've been writing books. So that, by its nature, is kind of a solitary occupation. And from time to time I have research help, but mostly I've done those completely on my own.
Caroline Kennedy

Nature, Time, Help

A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.
Graham Greene

Painting and writing are solitary arts.
Conrad Hall

Writing, Painting, Arts

I think any song should sound good just played on a solitary instrument with the vocal. If you have those basics you have all you need. The production then just polishes that idea into the finished thing.
Gary Numan

Good, Idea, Song

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