Quotes About Solitary

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

Ahab stands alone among the millions of the peopled earth, nor gods nor men his neighbors

Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours.

I do not think that Mulder trusts any one other than Scully. He s very solitary. She is the only one who takes him seriously. I don t know if they re in love. In a way, their relationship is deeper than that, because they cannot live without each other.

Survivors do not mourn together. They each mourn alone, even when in the same place. Grief is the most solitary of all feelings. Grief isolates, and every ritual, every gesture, every embrace, is a hopeless effort to break through that isolation. None of it works. The forms crumble and dissolve. To face death is to stand alone.

aspirava a uma paz que só a inocência na solidão pode proporcionar, a paz de um solitário inocente, que não abandonou nem traiu ninguém para estar só, um solitário que se conserva à margem do sangue e do sofrimento, sem que lhe possam ser pedidas contas.

I'm not a sociable person. I don't like to talk.

I'm not a social butterfly.

I don't party or socialize.

I don't club, I don't really go out, and there's a lot of stuff I don't really do socially.

I would rather die than do a play - 10 years in solitary instead.

Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children.

When I sing, it's the most solitary state: just me, and the microphone, and the holy spirit. It's not about notes or scales, it's all about emotion.

It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.

I think I'm a very solitary person. To actually not be anonymous is a bit claustrophobic for me.

Performing live on stage is such a community, whether it's my musicians or a cast of a show that I'm in. And then when you're in the studio or on set, it's a much more solitary experience. Both can serve me at different times in my life. And when I go back and forth from one to the other, it helps me appreciate all of them much better.

The pushy showbiz kid thing was always the performance, not the person. I'm very solitary. I don't like socialising.

Medicine has an immediate impact, the ability to do good. Writing is such a solitary activity.

Novels are so interior and idiosyncratic and such a solitary process.

There is a heavy-ego, solitary model of being an elected leader. We've certainly seen that in some other mayors of this city... I have much more of a Movement mentality. It's much more of what I'm steeped in. I don't think it is first and foremost about me. It's about the ideas and the agenda.

Peter Sellers was a solitary character, always preferring to hide behind a mask, and consequently, you never really got to know the real Sellers.

One of the reasons the games business has become more popular and more broadly appealing is that it's gone from this very solitary experience to this very social experience.

Book collecting is a largely solitary, mostly male, and completely absorbing activity.

Music has been more a solitary, creative thing. The acting side of things and working in movies has helped me collaboratively with music in terms of helping me get ideas across to other people and making it more of a team efforts.