Solitary Quotes - Page 18

• Children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way-and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Children, Thinking, Sad And Happy

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• Naked in solitary prison cell he looks down at a hard-on.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Cells, Naked, Looks

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• It is true that many creative people fail to make mature personal relationships, and some are extremely isolated. It is also true that, in some instances, trauma, in the shape of early separation or bereavement, has steered the potentially creative person toward developing aspects of his personality which can find fulfillment in comparative isolation. But this does not mean that solitary, creative pursuits are themselves pathological.

  Anthony Storr

  Mean, People, Personality

  Anthony Storr (2005). “Solitude: A Return to the Self”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• Writing is one of the most solitary activities in the world.

  Paulo Coelho

  Writing, World, Activity

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• To love makes one solitary.

  Virginia Woolf

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.23, Broadview Press

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• We were now arrived at the close of our solitary journeyings along the St. Joseph's trail.

  Francis Parkman

  Trails, Walking

  Francis Parkman (2016). “The Oregon Trail: Juvenile History - - American”, p.38, VM eBooks

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• When it comes to girls (and in Colin's case, it so often did), everyone has a type. Colin Singleton's type was not physical but linguistic: he liked Katherines. And not Katies or Kats or Kitties or Cathys or Rynns or Trinas or Kays or Kates or, god forbid, Catherines. K-A-T-H-E-R-I-N-E. He had dated 19 girls. All of them had been named Katherine. And all of them- every single solitary one- had dumped him.

  John Green

  Girl, Type, Kitties

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.23, Penguin

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• The brooks flow to their lover, the sea, and the flowers smile at the object of their passion, the light. The mist rolls down to its beloved, the valley. And I? In me is what brooks do not know, what flowers do not hear, what the mist does not apprehend. You see me alone in my love, solitary in my yearning.

  Khalil Gibran

  Flower, Passion, Light

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• ...there must be an inviolate place where the choices and decisions, however imperfect, are the writer's own, where the decision must be as individual and solitary as birth or death.

  Janet Frame

  Choices, Decision, Imperfect

  Janet Frame (2001). “An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography”, Womens PressLtd

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• Adversity is solitary, while prosperity dwells in a crowd

  Margaret of Valois

  Success, Adversity, Crowds

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• To Hope "When by my solitary hearth I sit, And hateful thoughts enwrap my soul in gloom; When no fair dreams before my 'mind's eye' flit, And the bare heath of life presents no bloom; Sweet Hope, ethereal balm upon me shed, And wave thy silver pinions o'er my head.

  John Keats

  Dream, Sweet, Eye

  John Keats (1841). “The poetical works of John Keats”, p.195

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• Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.

  Francis Quarles

  Plato, Prejudice, World

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• The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Rivers, Tears, Taj Mahal

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• When he grew old, Aristotle, who is not generally considered a tightrope dancer, liked to lose himself in the most labyrinthine and subtle of discourses […]. ‘The more solitary and isolated I become, the more I come to like stories,’ he said.

  Michel de Certeau

  Dancer, Stories, Subtle

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• Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinement. The ordinary world of work is closed to him - and that if he's lucky!

  Peter Straub

  Writing, Ordinary World, Lucky

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• Lots of creativity is and should be solitary.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Creativity, Should

  "Is crowd-sourcing the answer to restoring trust in government?". "The World Today" with Eleanor Hall, www.abc.net.au. November 29, 2012.

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• It's true that writing is 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.

  Anne Tyler

  Character, Writing, Groups

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• The power to share has already turned once-solitary activities into social occasions.

  Melinda Blau

  Social, Share, Occasions

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• He moves not through distance, but through the ranges of satisfaction that come from hauling himself up into the air with complete and utter control; from knowing himself and knowing his airplane so well that he can come somewhere close to touching, in his own special and solitary way, that thing that is called perfection.

  Richard Bach

  Distance, Moving, Airplane

  Richard Bach (2012). “A Gift of Wings”, p.209, Dell

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• Peter, in showing that the Church is one and that only those who are in the Church can be saved, said: "In the Ark of Noah certain persons, numbering only eight, were saved by water, which Baptism effects in like manner for you" (1 Peter 3:20). He proves and demonstrates that the solitary Ark of Noah was the figure of the One Church. If, at the time of this Baptism of the world anyone could have been saved without having been in the Ark of Noah, then he who is outside the Church could now be brought to life by Baptism.

  Cyprian

  Eight, Water, Baptism

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• A pretext-not a cause-is sufficient for us to enter the "solitary situation", the situation of the dreaming solitude. In this solitude, memories arrange themselves in tableaux. Decor takes precedence over drama. Sad memories take on at least the peace of melancholy.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Dream, Memories, Drama

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• If we want to be comforted, we must make up our minds to believe every single solitary word of comfort God has ever spoken.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Christian, Believe, Mind

  Hannah Whitall Smith (2011). “God of All Comfort”, p.56, Anamchara Books

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• This solitary Tree! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed.

  William Wordsworth

  Tree, Decay, Form

  William Wordsworth (1854). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.164

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• Charles Darwin [is my personal favorite Fellow of the Royal Society]. I suppose as a physical scientist I ought to have chosen Newton. He would have won hands down in an IQ test, but if you ask who was the most attractive personality then Darwin is the one you'd wish to meet. Newton was solitary and reclusive, even vain and vindictive in his later years when he was president of the society.

  Martin Rees

  Years, Hands, Personality

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• Understand, I'll slip quietly away from the noisy crowd when I see the pale stars rising, blooming, over the oaks. I'll pursue solitary pathways through the pale twilit meadows with only this one dream: You come too.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Dream, Stars, Reading

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