Solitary Quotes - Page 13

• Perhaps the sad and empty language that today's flabby humanity pours forth, will, in all its horror, in all its boundless absurdity, re-echo in the heart of a solitary man who is awake, and then perhaps that man, suddenly realizing that he does not understand, will begin to understand.

  Arthur Adamov

  Heart, Men, Echoes

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• How can there be democracy if the leadership in the United States and Britain don't uphold the values which my father's generation fought the Nazis, millions of people gave their lives against the Soviet Union's regime, didn't they? Because of what? Democracy. And what democracy meant. No torture, no camps, no detention forever or without trial, without charges. In solitary confinement. Those techniques which are not just alleged, they have actually been written about by the FBI. I don't think it's being far left - I hope that I'm wrong to consider that it's far left to uphold the rule of law.

  Vanessa Redgrave

  Father, Thinking, Law

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• Writing is a solitary pursuit and I think you have to be partially at peace with yourself, but it's the other part that's usually producing the stuff worth reading.

  Craig Johnson

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

  Craig Johnson (2013). “The Walt Longmire Mystery Series Boxed Set”, p.263, Penguin

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• Lonely children often have imaginary playmates but I was never lonely; rather, I was solitary, and wanted no company at all other than books and movies, and my own imagination.

  Gore Vidal

  Lonely, Children, Book

  Gore Vidal (1994). “Screening History”

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• The appearance presented by the streets of London an hour before sunrise, on a summer's morning, is most striking even to the few whose unfortunate pursuits of pleasure, or scarcely less unfortunate pursuits of business, cause them to be well acquainted with the scene. There is an air of cold, solitary desolation about the noiseless streets which we are accustomed to see thronged at other times by a busy, eager crowd, and over the quiet, closely-shut buildings, which throughout the day are swarming with life and bustle, that is very impressive.

  Charles Dickens

  Summer, Morning, Air

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Sketches by Boz: Pseud. Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People”, p.55

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• The last man! Yes I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Men, Race, Feelings

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• The painter or draftsman ought to be solitary, in order that the well-being of the body not sap the vigour of the mind.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Order, Solitude, Mind

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• The painter must be solitary. For if you are alone you are completely yourself, but if you are accompanied by a single companion, you are only half yourself.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Half, Companion, Painter

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• Decomposition, for most, starts when they leave the free, social, and uncorrupted college life for the solitary confinement of professions and nuclear families.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  College, Nuclear Families, Social

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.42, Random House

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• Working on a novel is very solitary and I get to be the boss. I'm the dictator, so I win every battle. So, in that sense, novels are easier because you don't have to answer to anyone. And then, you go into something like film and there are more cooks in the kitchen, so to speak.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Winning, Boss, Kitchen

  Source: collider.com

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• Nothing is rarer than a solitary lie; for lies breed like Surinam toads; you cannot tell one but out it comes with a hundred young ones on its back.

  Washington Allston

  Lying, Toads, Hundred

  Washington Allston (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.173

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• A great many wise sayings have been uttered about the effects of solitary retirement; but the motives which impel men to seek it are not more various than the effects which it produces on different individuals. One thing is certain, that those who can with truth affirm that they are "never less alone than when alone," might generally add that they never feel more lonely than when not alone.

  Arthur Helps

  Wise, Lonely, Retirement

  Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”

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• With no companion but the constant Muse, Who sought me when I needed her ah, when Did I not need her, solitary else?

  Richard Henry Stoddard

  Needs, Muse, Poet

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• An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagances of solitary and uncorrected speculation.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Mean, Ideas, Extravagance

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• I like weeding, but I tend to think of it as a solitary activity.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Weed, Thinking, Activity

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• Despite my solitary life, I have found infinite joy in books and writing, and am by far too much interested in the affairs of the world to quit the scene before Nature shall claim me.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Book, Writing, Solitary Life

  H.P. Lovecraft (2008). “Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft”, p.549, Hachette UK

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• I would have been content with any job however thankless, in any quarter however remote, if I had a chance of making a corner of the desert blossom and the solitary place glad.

  John Buchan

  Jobs, Work, Would Be

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• The New Testament does not envisage solitary religion; regular assembly for worship is everywhere in the epistles.

  C. S. Lewis

  Doe, Worship, Assembly

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• We are, first of all, not solitary creatures and second of all, we are deeply embedded in the lives of others. It's very easy to forget that and to engage in an atomistic fallacy - where we think that all we have to do is study the individual components of a system in order to understand the system. That's clearly not the case when it comes to social systems.

  Nicholas A. Christakis

  Thinking, Order, Humanity

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• Do I dare disturb the universe? Yes, I do, I do. I think. Jerry suddenly understood the poster--the solitary man on the beach standing upright and alone and unafraid, poised at the moment of making himself heard and known in the world, the universe.

  Robert Cormier

  Beach, Men, Thinking

  Robert Cormier (2013). “The Chocolate War”, p.196, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Some moralist or mythological poet
  Compares the solitary soul to a swan;
  I am satisfied with that,
  Satisfied if a troubled mirror show it,
  Before that brief gleam of its life be gone.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beauty, Swans, Mirrors

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.177, Wordsworth Editions

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• I begin to fully understand the lengths to which people have gone to protect me. What I mean to the rebels. My on going struggle against the Capitol, which has so often felt like a solitary journey, has not been undertaken alone. I have had thousands upon thousands of people from the districts at my side. I was their Mockingjay long before I accepted the role.

  Suzanne Collins

  Struggle, Mean, Journey

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.90, Scholastic Inc.

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• There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  World, Spirit, Window

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle “Mysteries and Adventures”, Lulu.com

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• There is on the earth no institution which Friendship has established; it is not taught by any religion; no scripture contains itsmaxims. It has no temple, nor even a solitary column. There goes a rumor that the earth is inhabited, but the shipwrecked mariner has not seen a footprint on the shore. The hunter has found only fragments of pottery and the monuments of inhabitants.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Bible, Rumor

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.188, Xist Publishing

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• If you could say, with truth, to your own solitary heart, to-night, 'I have secured to myself the love and attachment, the gratitude or respect, of no human creature; I have won myself a tender place in no regard; I have done nothing good or serviceable to be remembered by!' your seventy-eight years would be seventy-eight heavy curses; would they not?

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Heart

  Charles Dickens (1904). “A tale of two cities, with intr., notes, and analytical list of characters”

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