I'm a solitary sort, I get chaffed by too many elbows.
The power to share has already turned once-solitary activities into social occasions.
It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.
I feel certain that the largest part of all photographs ever taken or being taken or ever to be taken, is and will continue to be, portraits. This is not only true, it is also necessary. We are not solitary mammals, like the elephant, the whale and the ape. What is most profoundly felt between us, even if hidden, will reappear in our portraits of one another.
Life is not a solitary activity. Live well by living for others.
Knowledge has no value or use for the solitary owner: to be enjoyed it must be communicated
I always take a close look at those who lose themselves in self portraits. They are solitary souls, prone to introspection, who have really grappled with their existence.
Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.
In the firm expectation that when London shall be a habitation of bitterns, when St. Paul and Westminster Abbey shall stand shapeless and nameless ruins in the midst of an unpeopled marsh, when the piers of Waterloo Bridge shall become the nuclei of islets of reeds and osiers, and cast the jagged shadows of their broken arches on the solitary stream, some Transatlantic commentator will be weighing in the scales of some new and now unimagined system of criticism the respective merits of the Bells and the Fudges and their historians.
Twas beyond a mortal's share To wander solitary there: Two paradises 'twere in one To live in paradise alone.
Solitude without togetherness deteriorates into loneliness. One needs strong roots in togetherness to be solitary rather than lonely when one is alone.
Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently
There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.
Composition has almost always been solitary.
My life is not merely a public phenomenon, it is a solitary adventure as well.
I am a bit of a solitude person - a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don't have any major friendships or relationships with people.
A holy life is not an ascetic, or gloomy or solitary life, but a life regulated by divine truth and faithful in Christian duty. It is living above the world while we are still in it.
Let the moon shine on the in thy solitary walk; and let the misty mountain-winds be free to blow against thee.
I'm pretty solitary when I take pictures. Even when I take pictures of people, I just go about my own way of doing it.
Painting is a solitary act for me; I don't need anyone around to make paintings.