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Quotes About Solitary

I don't want to be rude, but I'm not that social. When I say, 'I never go out,' I mean, 'I never go out.'
~ Emily Rios
I was a loner; I was never the crazy party girl.
~ Cardi B
I spend an awful lot of time by myself and enjoy that.
~ James Nesbitt
I have never belonged to a party. I don't have party affiliation.
~ William Odom
He was the solitary lucid spectator of a multiform, momentaneous, and almost unbearably precise world.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
I suspect that the human species - the unique species - is about to be extinguished, but the Library will endure: illuminated, solitary, infinite, perfectly motionless, equipped with precious volumes, useless, incorruptible, secret.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
I'm not a big family person. I'm more of a loner.
~ Megan Fox
Breaking news: there is only one Missy.
~ Missy Elliott
Oh and night: there is night, when a wind full of infinite space gnaws at our faces. Whom would it not remain for - that longed-after, mildly disillusioning presence, which the solitary heart so painfully meets. Is it any less difficult for lovers? But they keep on using each other to hide their own fate.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Read as little as possible in the way of aesthetics and criticism - it will either be partisan views, fossilized and made meaningless in its lifeless rigidity, or it will be neat wordplay, where one opinion will triumph one day and the opposite the next. Works of art are infinitely solitary and nothing is less likely to reach them than criticism. Only love can grasp them and hold them and do them justice.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
And in that state of nature, no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. —Thomas Hobbes
~ Dave Grossman
If he was going to be in solitary confinement, he might as well play a little solitaire.
~ David Archer
just like that, Thomas was alone
~ James Dashner
but I liked the idea of living in a city - any city, especially a strange one - liked the thought of traffic and crowds, of working in a bookstore, waiting tables in a coffeeshop, who knew what kind of odd, solitary life I might slip into?
~ Donna Tartt
I like the idea of living in a city - any city, especially a strange one - like the thought of traffic and crowds, of working in a bookstore, waiting tables in a coffee shop, who knew what kind of odd, solitary life I might slip into? Meals alone, waling the dogs in the evenings; and nobody knowing who I was.
~ Donna Tartt
they discovered only a small asteroid inhabited by a solitary old man who claimed repeatedly that nothing was true, though he was later discovered to be lying.
~ Douglas Adams
When one day an expedition was sent to the spatial coordinates that Voojagig had claimed for the planet they discovered only a small asteroid inhabited by a solitary old man who claimed repeatedly that nothing was true, though he was later discovered to be lying.
~ Douglas Adams
Nixon was kind of a loner, he had a cold personality.
~ Earl Butz
Everything I write tends to turn into a superhero team, even if I didn't mean for it to. I always start off wanting to be solitary, because a) it's simpler, and b) that isolation is something that I relate to as a storyteller. And then no matter what, I always end up with a team.
~ Joss Whedon
Either you are extrovert or introvert, and so I am an introvert in that sense. I'm not a social person that wants to go to parties.
~ Gautam Adani
A lot of cats are not that social.
~ Jack Hanna
Writing is the most disembodied art, and reading and writing are largely private and solitary experiences, so music and dance have always enchanted me as arts in which the body of the performer communicates directly to the audience, welding a kind of communion writers rarely experience.
~ Rebecca Solnit
I'm really a one-man band.
~ Graham King