Solitary Quotes - Page 14

• The lover`s discourse was of an extreme solitude. The solitude was extreme because it wasn`t physical. It was extreme because you felt it while in the company of the person you loved. It was extreme because it was in your head, the most solitary of places.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Solitude, Lovers, Company

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2011). “The Marriage Plot: A Novel”, p.65, Macmillan

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• You are always training yourself to be, mind and body, as clear as crystal, and you always are, and never change; whereas I am a muddy, solitary, moping weed.

  Charles Dickens

  Weed, Character, Interesting

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.8363, Delphi Classics

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• The most optimistic thing that's happened is that as a society we're beginning to recognize that there are many voices. When I began, thirty years ago, the idea of one author or the artist as being a solitary creature was really the only idea that there was.

  Wendy Ewald

  Optimistic, Artist, Years

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• When Private Bradley [aka Chelsea] Manning put his conscience ahead of his personal well-being by allegedly releasing important information to the world's public via WikiLeaks, he was put into an inhumane solitary confinement and is now facing charges that carry the possibility of him spending the rest of his life in prison.

  Ray McGovern

  Aka, Important, Wikileaks

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• The Truth is in the prolouge. Death to the romantic fool., the expert in solitary confinement.

  Pablo Neruda

  Fool, Experts, Truth Is

  Pablo Neruda, “Still Another Day: XVII/Men”

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• If you're a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean, you're supposed to leave something beautiful after you get off the page and everything. The ones you're talking about don't leave a single, solitary thing beautiful. All that maybe the slightly better ones do is sort of get inside your head and leave something there, but just because they do, just because they know how to leave something, it doesn't have to be a poem for heaven's sake. It may just be some kind of terribly fascinating, syntaxy droppings--excuse the expression. Like Manlius and Esposito and all those poor men.

  J. D. Salinger

  Beautiful, Mean, Men

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• I like stand-up. But I'd also like a family and house and a yard. I want to work with a lot of people, have colleagues; and on good film sets, there's people there that work with the same people for years and years. I love that collaborative spirit in that medium. Comedy is a lot more solitary.

  Demetri Martin

  Years, People, House

  "Demetri Martin on ‘Standup Comedian,’ Comedy Central, balance". Interview with Katie Hasty, uproxx.com. October 07, 2012.

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• Writing is such a solitary thing, so its nice, when Im discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction.

  Robert Boswell

  Nice, Writing, People

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• Increasingly I think of myself as some strange and solitary conductor, introduced to a group of very dynamic musicians who happen to be my characters, and I have no idea how they are going to play together, and I have certainly no idea how I am going to put manners on them.

  Colum McCann

  Character, Thinking, Ideas

  "This Week in Fiction: Colum McCann" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. April 04, 2012.

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• I don't need money, or, better, it's not money that I need; it's not even power; I need only what is obtained by power and simply cannot be obtained without power: the solitary and calm awareness of strength! That is the fullest definition of freedom, which the world so struggles over!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Struggle, Needs, World

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2007). “The Adolescent”, p.88, Vintage

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• All thoughtful men are solitary and original in themselves.

  James Russell Lowell

  Thoughtful, Men, Originality

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• Writing, at its heart, is a solitary pursuit, designed to make people depressoids, drug addicts, misanthropes, and antisocial weirdos.

  Mindy Kaling

  Writing, Heart, People

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.142, Crown/Archetype

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• She had been a solitary child, and then solitary as a woman, drawn into an orbit of her own that took her away from others, even those who would be her friends.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Children, Orbit, Would Be

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• The highest branch of solitary amusement is reading; but even in the choice of books the fancy is first employed; for in reading, the heart is touched, till its feelings are examined by the understanding, and the ripening of reason regulate the imagination. This is the work of years, and the most important of all employments.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Book, Reading, Heart

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• I was having an epiphany. A moment of supreme clarity, leading to what I dubbed a “realization of solitude” that goes like this: I’m lonely. But when I left that girl in the window I was sure I’d never felt more godforsaken in my life. There’s a big difference between being alone and being lonely. And I’m guessing that once you’ve discovered this distinction you can’t go back to solitary confinement without serious emotional repercussions.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Girl, Lonely, Emotional

  "How to Kill a Rock Star". Book by Tiffanie DeBartolo, 2005.

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• The Byronic hero, incapable of love, or capable only of an impossible love, suffers endlessly. He is solitary, languid, his condition exhausts him. If he wants to feel alive, it must be in the terrible exaltation of a brief and destructive action.

  Albert Camus

  Hero, Suffering, Exaltation

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.49, Vintage

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• Painting is a solitary act for me; I don't need anyone around to make paintings.

  Danny Fox

  Needs, Painting

  "Wild Horses, William Burroughs And White Cake With Danny Fox". Interview With Christiana Spens, thequietus.com. September 22, 2013.

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• Photography is, and has been since its conception, a fabulously broad church. Contemporary practice demonstrates that the medium can be a prompt, a process, a vehicle, a collective pursuit, and not just the physical end product of solitary artists' endeavors.

  Charlotte Cotton

  Photography, Artist, Practice

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• There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. Some men, like bats or owls, have better eyes for the darkness than for the light. We, who have no such optical powers, are better pleased to take our last parting look at the visionary companions of many solitary hours, when the brief sunshine of the world is blazing full upon them.

  Charles Dickens

  Eye, Dark, Sunshine

  Charles Dickens (1838). “The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.607

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• Authority is a solvent of humanity: look at any husband, any father of a family,and note the absorption of the person by the persona, the individual by the role. Then multiply the family, and the authority, by some hundreds and see the effect upon a sea-captain, to say nothing of an absolute monarch.Surely man in general is born to be oppressed or solitary, if he is to be fully human; unless it so happens that he is immune to the poison.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Husband, Father, Men

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• A minor fief had risen up against their cruel and avaricious lord, with hundreds of people surrounding his Manor house, threatening to burn it to the ground. The panicked nobleman's message for help was answered by the arrival of a single Ranger. Aghast, the nobleman confronted the solitary cowled figure. 'They sent one Ranger?' he said incredulously. 'One man?' 'How many riots do you have?' the Ranger replied.

  John Flanagan

  Men, People, House

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• It's strange when they near your cell. You lose all your strength, and you are like this. You lose all your strength as if a rope is dragging it out of you. Then the footsteps stop in front of another solitary confinement cell, and when you hear the sound of the key turning you feel relieved.

  Sakae Menda

  Cells, Keys, Sound

  "Film: Harsh Justice". www.journeyman.tv. March 29, 2004.

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• Something in our nature cries out to be loved by another. Isolation is devastating to the human psyche. That is why solitary confinement is considered the cruelest of punishments.

  Gary Chapman

  Punishment, Isolation, Cry

  Gary Chapman (2010). “The 5 Love Languages/Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married Set”, p.18, Moody Publishers

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• Most of them were murderers. But when I went there to talk, they were the nicest people. I did a reading. I said, "Thank you," and then they said to me, "Could you talk some more?" And I said, "Why?" and they answered, "Most of us are in solitary confinement, so the moment you finish talking, they take us back to our cells. We like hanging out here together."

  Etgar Keret

  Reading, Cells, Talking

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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  Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Society, Liberty, Nasty

  Thomas Hobbes (2016). “Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan (Longman Library of Primary Sources in Philosophy)”, p.9, Routledge

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