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Quotes About Solitary

The man of earth is the adherent. The lover giveth his life unto the work among men. The hermit goeth solitary, and giveth only of his light unto men.
~ Aleister Crowley
And in the night my own mother came to the window to meet me, strange, solitary; splendid with countless stars; my mother Night; mine, lovely, mine. My home…
~ Anna Kavan
He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
~ Evelyn Waugh
Y en cambio, los gatos se comportan como si no les importases lo más mínimo. También hay personas así, ¿sabes?, ariscas, que no se dejan querer. Idgie era así
~ Fannie Flagg
Solitary confinement is too terrible a punishment to inflict on any human being, no matter what his crime. Hardened criminals in the men's prisons, it is said, often beg for the lash instead.
~ Emmeline Pankhurst
It didn't take much to turn a man solitary-being the new guy too often, being controversial now and then, a couple of unsuccessful attempts at a lasting relationship with a woman…
~ Robyn Carr
His seventy-six-year-old heart almost quit on him as his gaze, as good as it ever was, focused on a solitary pine tree and the naked woman lashed to the trunk. "Holy
~ Lisa Jackson
Dying is a very solitary thing. The only thing we can do it be there when she wants us there.
~ Lois Lowry
I'm a solitary sort, I get chaffed by too many elbows.
~ Louis Bayard
It won't do, gentlemen. I'm a solitary sort, I get chaffed by too many elbows.
~ Louis Bayard
No one guessed what a world of hopes and thoughts and feelings lay hidden beneath that blue pinafore, what dreams this solitary child enjoyed, or what a hungry, aspiring young soul lived in her crooked little body.
~ Louisa May Alcott
You do not know him. He has no pity, and my defiance will but increase the excitement of the pursuit. I am solitary, poor and a woman; he powerful, rich and a man whom all fear. The world which rejects me though I am innocent will welcome him, the guilty, and uphold him.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Raptors like these falcons were solitary by nature; they didn't even like each other except in the mating season, much less humans. All you could teach them was that doing what humans wanted would get them more of what they wanted, which was to kill, eat, mate and sleep.
~ S. M. Stirling
He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
~ Evelyn Waugh
A flower more sacred than far-seen success Perfumes my solitary path; I find Sweet compensation in my humbleness, And reap the harvest of a quiet mind.
~ John Townsend Trowbridge
They were such solitary creatures that when they met their mates they would begin to scream, for they were drawn to each other, yet were enemies still.
~ Alice Hoffman
My research was stimulating but solitary
~ Alison Bechdel
Naked in solitary prison cell he looks down at a hard-on.
~ Allen Ginsberg
The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.
~ E.M. Cioran
How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow!
~ Anonymous
I was always on my oddy knocky.
~ Anthony Burgess
For him, bravery was not an assertion of collective defiance and solidarity among colleagues but a solitary, obstinate act of will.
~ Anthony Everitt
I try not to label myself anything, really, but you know, I'm definitely an indoorsy person, and I definitely kind of just try to, you know, stay away from life in the public eye, at least.
~ Macaulay Culkin
Had his own way of praying, he had said; that old excuse. As if we were meant to be solitary. As if the church were not about holding the community together, as this sinful one needed.
~ Frances Mayes