I am not sure what lonliness is," she said. "If it is not literally being solitary, is it the fear of solitude, of being alone with oneself? I feel no such fear. I like being alone. " "What do you fear then?" he asked her. She glanced briefly at him and smiled, a fragile expression that spoke for itself even before she found words. "Never finding myself again.
Naked in solitary prison cell he looks down at a hard-on.
Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.
Always go to the solitary drinker for the truth!
A color stands abroad on solitary hills that silence cannot overtake, but human nature feels.
Neurotic identity crises come when our defense mechanisms have been too successful and we're encapsulated in the fortress we have constructed with nothing to refresh us in our solitary confinement. So we play the old movies with their stale fears and their unrealistic hopes until we become bored enough to risk disarmament and engagement.
I'm a solitary sort, I get chaffed by too many elbows.
Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive.
It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.
Doing my art came out of something very solitary and something that I had no intention of showing anybody, and yet once people saw pieces in my house, it became really clear that there was a great demand for my art.
The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.
I saw above a sea of hills A solitary planet shine, And there was no one, near or far, to keep the world from being mine.
To love makes one solitary.
Solitary. But not in the sense of being alone. Not solitary in the way Thoreau was, for example, exiling himself in order to find out where he was; not solitary in the way Jonah was, praying for deliverance in the belly of the whale. Solitary in the sense of retreat. In the sense of not having to see himself, of not having to see himself being seen by anyone else.
The artist after all is a solitary being.
It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone.
when I am alone in the forest I always say my prayers; and that occasional solitary communion with God is surely the only true religion for intelligent beings.
You are always training yourself to be, mind and body, as clear as crystal, and you always are, and never change; whereas I am a muddy, solitary, moping weed.
How many a knot of mystery and misunderstanding would be untied by one word spoken in simple and confiding truth of heart! How many a solitary place would be made glad if love were there, and how many a dark dwelling would be filled with light!
A solitary life cherishes mere fancies until they become manias.