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Quotes About Solitary

I'm a quiet, shy person and not someone who likes the limelight.
~ Rivaldo
In personal life, I'm quite a shy person and keep things to myself.
~ Anirudh Ravichander
Can I love someone...and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight, beating wings.
~ Susan Sontag
A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy.
~ Josephine Tey
I'm very private, not the interview type.
~ Romeo Santos
Only Once In Your Life
~ Bob Marley
The solitary creator, dreaming his or her dream, unaided, seems to me to be the only artist we can trust.
~ Harlan Ellison
I'm the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I'm the type of person who doesn't find it painful to be alone
~ Haruki Murakami
Kalief Browder was arrested in 2010 at age sixteen for stealing a backpack and then held for three years without a trial on Rikers Island. During his time on Rikers, Kalief was beaten by both guards and inmates, and he spent an inconceivable two years in solitary confinement before his case was finally dismissed in 2013.
~ Stacy Horn
The flies buzzed in answer above the dirty water standing in the washbasin, in which floated a solitary black hair. It, too, was like life-- and as meaningless.
~ Stella Gibbons
Nicholas Temelcoff is famous on the bridge, a daredevil. He is given all the difficult jobs and he takes them. He descends into the air with no fear. He is a solitary. He assembles ropes, brushes the tackle and pulley at his waist, and falls off the bridge like a diver over the edge of a boat.
~ Michael Ondaatje
I have a characteristic since my childhood. I don't like living together with my mother, sister, or friends at my home. I have always preferred to be alone and independent and lived according to that.
~ Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you.
~ Billie Holiday
He hid his strength beneath unusual weakness, The diffidence of a solitary man: Where he was weak he recognised your mother's power, And yielded to it.
~ T.S. Eliot
People who know me personally know me as an introvert.
~ Amy McGrath
New ideas, fragile as spring flowers, easily bruised by the tread of the multitude, may yet be cherished by the solitary wanderer.
~ Fred Hoyle
I like stand-up. But I'd also like a family and house and a yard. I want to work with a lot of people, have colleagues; and on good film sets, there's people there that work with the same people for years and years. I love that collaborative spirit in that medium. Comedy is a lot more solitary.
~ Demetri Martin
Bicycling, the way I think of it, is solitary, and if it's going to stand for anything in a narrative, it might as well be the solitary experience of being alive.
~ Bruce Weber
From this distant vantage point, the meat planet might not seem of any particular interest: an obscure and solitary lump, suspended in a sunbeam.
~ Carl Sagan
I AM ALWAYS ALONE. BUT JUST NOW I WANT TO BE ALONE BY MYSELF.
~ Terry Pratchett
I don't go around making conversation, I just kind of stick to myself.
~ Jorge Masvidal
Code writing was a solitary pursuit, but designing and fitting together diverse pieces demanded cooperation and compromise.
~ G. Pascal Zachary
His solitary act was a radical statement of the importance of community. If we desire to be remade in God's image, we will be molded in such a way that we move toward others.
~ Gary L. Thomas
It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.
~ Gary Oldman