Quotes about solitary

Durgesh Satpathy -

God gifted a Zoo with a paralyzed care taker.

Christine de Pizan - The Selected Writings

I do not consider my deeds or my knowledge to be a great thing. The only fact is — and I can say this honestly — that I love learning and a solitary life.

Durgesh Satpathy - Equating the Equations of Insanity: A Journey from Grief to Victory

It will be better to spent our energy on reality; the tangible facts, not thoughts of the past.

Durgesh Satpathy - Equating the Equations of Insanity: A Journey from Grief to Victory

Being in home is like magic moments, in a magic world, among maicians

Lailah Gifty Akita -

If we seek solitary retreat, you will be more often refreshed.

Durgesh Satpathy - Equating the Equations of Insanity: A Journey from Grief to Victory

was it scripted by God or I am playing with my life.

Dwight L. Moody -

No one can sum up all God is able to accomplish through one solitary life, wholly yielded, adjusted, and obedient to Him.

Charles Dickens - Great Expectations

. . . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker . . .

Munia Khan -

Live alone if staying together seems lifeless

Durgesh Satpathy -

Some wounds; never reflects on the skin, but kills us slowly from inside.

Garth Risk Hallberg - City on Fire

Some people think the real them is whoever they are when they're not around other people.

Robert Burton - The Anatomy of Melancholy

I am not poor, I am not rich; nihil est, nihil deest, I have little, I want nothing: all my treasure is in Minerva’s tower...I live still a collegiate student...and lead a monastic life, ipse mihi theatrum [sufficient entertainment to myself], sequestered from those tumults and troubles of the world...aulae vanitatem, fori ambitionem, ridere mecum soleo [I laugh to myself at the vanities of the court, the intrigues of public life], I laugh at all.

Munia Khan -

A lonely soul is the best friend of itself

Durgesh Satpathy - Equating the Equations of Insanity: A Journey from Grief to Victory

Journey becomes difficult when we know the destination but not aware of the right path, may be the supreme power testing your moral and physical stamina.

Anna Kavan - Asylum Piece

The years passed like the steps of a staircase leading lower and lower. I did not walk any more in the sun or hear the songs of larks like crystal fountains playing against the sky. No hand enfolded mine in the warm clasp of love. My thoughts were again solitary, disintegrate, disharmonious – the music gone. I lived alone in a few pleasant rooms, feeling my life run out aimlessly with the tedious hours: the life of an old maid ran out of my fingertips.

Durgesh Satpathy - Equating the Equations of Insanity: A Journey from Grief to Victory

Someone carries my belief that raises hope in me, but flame didn’t last for long

Durgesh Satpathy - Equating the Equations of Insanity: A Journey from Grief to Victory

When stupidity reaches its highest level, we act rubbish knowingly

Hal Zina Bennett - Write from the Heart: Unleashing the Power of Your Creativity

The art of writing is not as solitary as one might think. When it finally dawns on us one day that our task as writers is to share what we know of the human spirit, we suddenly discover that we were never truly alone.

Richelle E. Goodrich - Making Wishes

Even among familiar faces, people often feel invisible and desolate, like an island in cold waters or a shadow apart from the crowd. Be the reason another never feels alone.

Durgesh Satpathy -

Being in home is like magic moments, in a magic world, among magicians.

George Santayana - The Life of Reason and Other Works by George Santayana

Consciousness is a born hermit.

Julian Hawthorne - American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps

It did not occur to me that absence of human companionship does not assure solitude. It may, on the contrary, plunge one into an environment compared with which New York or London would appear deserts. For we take memory and imagination with us. The seabirds that scream overhead or waddle along the margins of the surf; the grotesque forms of twisted cedars; the rustle of sea-grass in the wind; the interminable percussion of the breakers; the dead infinity of the sand itself - there can be no sol

Kristin Cashore - Fire

She didn't want to go far, just out of the trees so she could see the stars. They always eased her loneliness. She thought of them as beautiful creatures, burning and cold; each solitary, and bleak, and silent like her.

Robert Silverberg -

The main thing about aliens is that they are alien. They feel no responsibility for fulfilling any of your expectations. (Dark City Lights)

Durgesh Satpathy -

She never wished for the thing what she is experiencing. It is her inner voice that became her enemy.

David Nicholls -

Lonely' is a troubling word and not one to be tossed around lightly. It makes people uncomfortable, summoning up as it does all kinds of harsher adjectives, like 'sad' or 'strange'. I have always been well liked, I think, always well regarded and respected, but having few enemies is not the same as having many friends, and there was no denying that I was, if not 'lonely', more solitary than I'd hoped to be at that time.

Al Álvarez - The Savage God: A Study of Suicide

[Sylvia Plath] was now far along a peculiarly solitary road on which not many would risk following her. So it was important for her to know that her messages were coming back clear and strong. Yet not even her determinedly bright self-reliance could disguise the loneliness that came from her almost palpably, like a heat haze. She asked for neither sympathy nor help but, like bereaved widow at a wake, she simply wanted company in her mourning.

Shirley Jackson - Just an Ordinary Day: The Uncollected Stories

...very lonely and, often, very unhappy, with the poignant misery that comes to lonely people who long to be social and cannot, somehow, step naturally and unselfconsciously into some friendly group

Rainer Maria Rilke - The Book of Images

The SolitaryAs one who has sailed across an unknown sea,among this rooted folk I am alone;the full days on their tables are their own,to me the distant is reality.A new world reaches to my very eyes,a place perhaps unpeopled as the moon;their slightest feelings they must analyze,and all their words have got the common tune.The things I brought with me from far away,compared with theirs, look strangely not the same:in their great country they were living things,but here they hold their breath, as

Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Notes from Underground

At that time I was only twenty-four years old. My life then was already gloomy, disorderly, and solitary to the point of savagery.

Charlotte Eriksson -

Are you in love? What makes your heart beat faster? What do you want people to think about when they hear your name.

Jade Chang - The Wangs vs. the World

She had headed towards town aimlessly, looking for the kind of escape that could be found only in a solitary walk through a crowd.

Julian Hawthorne - American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps

...the natures of solitary people are apt to have more unmapped country in them than worldly folk imagine. They see and think and do things peculiar to themselves, and one may turn up buried treasure in them at any moment. ("Absolute Evil")

Nathanael West - Miss Lonelyhearts

It's solitary drinking that makes drunkards.

Daniel J. Rice - The Unpeopled Season: Journal from a North Country Wilderness

The contemplative man always lives alone. Regardless of who may reside in his home, his is a solitary world.

Peter Straub -

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.

Akilnathan Logeswaran -

At one point in your life you have to decide whether you want to become a sachem or a solitary.

Jill Shalvis -

Go away. I hate everyone right now, and I'm pretty sure that includes you.

Travis Thrasher -

I'm sixteen with what I hope will be a long life ahead, but I'm willing to give it up, to give anything to let her live, to let her make it through the night.

Sara Sheridan -

Writing is such a solitary occupation that it takes a long time to build up a group of professional peers with whom you genuinely identify.

Kilroy J. Oldster - Dead Toad Scrolls

Reading and writing are solitary activities that increase a person’s capacity for concentration, awareness, and conceptual thought as the person weaves immediate information with stored memories.

Milarepa -

I need nothing. I seek nothing. I desire nothing.

Kristen Ciccarelli - The Last Namsara

Iskari let others define her because she thought she didn't have a choice. Because she thought she was alone and unloved.

Pushpa Rana - Just the Way I Feel

I would rather be alone than having a solitary company.

Rainer Maria Rilke - Letters to a Young Poet

I believe that that love remains strong and intense in your memory because it was your first deep aloneness and the first inner work that you did on your life.

John J. Geddes -

a rainy walk through leaves will cure almost anything

Durgesh Satpathy - Equating the Equations of Insanity: A Journey from Grief to Victory

She disappeared; her voice, her laughter, and the warmth of her breath never seen by no one again.

Durgesh Satpathy -

She disappeared; her voice, her laughter and the warmth of her breath never seen by no one again.

Siân Lavinia Anaïs Valeriana - Lavinia - Volume One

This world today makes one by the day a recluse