Solitary Person Quotes

#1. Do you know what sorrow the rain can inspire?

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Do you know how gutters weep when it pours down?

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Do you know how lost a solitary person feels in the rain?

Badr Shakir Sayyab

#2. My heart applauds inside my ears, first like a roaring crowd, then slows and slows until it's a solitary person, clapping with unbridled sarcasm.
Clap. Clap.
Clap.
Well done, Ed.
Well given up.

Markus Zusak

#3. I'm the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to the community and being alone, and it's the best of both possible worlds.

Ariel Dorfman

#4. I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner.

Steve Martin

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

Ani DiFranco

#6. I devoted myself simply to being a solitary person entrusted with a specific task.

Jacobo Timerman

#7. I had always been a solitary person. Therefore I had a habit of opening my heart to a piece of paper. I thought that was quite secure. I knew that those words would never go out there, except of course if someone read them.

Pet Torres

#8. She knows how things fit together and move, but so few people understand her. She's the most solitary person I've ever known.

Ally Condie

#9. I've never been a sunny personality. I've never been outgoing. I'm a solitary person.

Jessica Lange

#10. Do not mistake awkwardness for callousness. Remember, I am a solitary person, as I warned you. I'm not accustomed to easy and warm social exchange.

Irvin D. Yalom

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

Bonnie Langford

#12. We're at once alone and in close company: this is the great gift of the novel, the element that makes reading more than a solitary pastime. We sit within another's person.

Brenda Walker

#13. recognise him as a person who is lonely as opposed to solitary, who did not choose to be on his own but involuntarily lost people until he was.

Sara Baume

#14. But the lucidity of her old age allowed her to see, and she said so many times, that the cries of children in their mothers' wombs are not announcements of ventriloquism or a faculty for prophecy but an unmistakable sign of an incapacity for love.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#15. But the way to wealth through the quill seems long ...

Elizabeth Charles

#16. 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.

Anthony Hopkins

#17. Within each person is the miracle of a unique consciousness unlike any other in the universe.

Bryant McGill

#18. Future strong individuals will not take on personal sacrifices, hardships and corporate crap that sidetrack them from their dreams and goals.

Bill Jensen

#19. The lover's discourse was of an extreme solitude. The solitude was extreme because it wasn't physical. It was extreme because you felt it while in the company of the person you loved. It was extreme because it was in your head, the most solitary of places.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#20. I ain't going to bump no more with no big fat woman.

Joe Tex

#21. What this brings out is that modern politics cannot be a matter of genuine moral consensus. And it is not. Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means,

Alasdair MacIntyre

#22. So you realized that there were always women in tears, or a red-headed man, or something else to spoil your effects?"

"Yes, naturally.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#23. A person's true security consists not in his own persinal, solitary effort, but in the common integrity of mankind.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#24. Cats, as any rational person knows, are solitary, opportunistic, ambush predators, much like spiders, but with fewer legs and a better fan club.

Jonathan L. Howard

#25. They all occupied the same space but did not occupy it together. Imagine a thousand leaves of tracing paper, each with one person lightly pencilled on it, all stacked atop a scene of a frozen city block. A thousand discreet and solitary realities that appear to be occurring in the same location.

Doug Dorst

#26. Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army's strength is the foot soldiers.

Franz Grillparzer

#27. It has been my experience that nothing changes a person's life more than the discovery of one solitary truth: There is a meaning and purpose to life. More specifically: There is a meaning and purpose to your life.

Matthew Kelly

#28. Are you committed to the craft, or will you quit when it gets too hard?

Jeff Goins

#29. I read like a crazy person, I play the piano, and I'm a photographer. I always say my photography keeps me sane. I spend a lot of time in the darkroom. It's a very solitary, quiet life when I'm not working.

Alaina Huffman

#30. Sustainability is another word for justice, for what is just is sustainable and what is unjust is not.

Matthew Fox

#31. And what does a person with such romantic temperament seek in the study of the classics?
If by romantic you mean solitary and introspective, I think romantics are frequently the best classicists.

Donna Tartt

#32. You'll never have a garden - a garden needs walls and you have no walls.

Russell Page

#33. Reading and writing are solitary activities that increase a person's capacity for concentration, awareness, and conceptual thought as the person weaves immediate information with stored memories.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#34. The surest sign that you're working with the life-affirming kind of discipline, rather than the spirit-depressing kind, is that you don't complain very much about doing what it takes.

Danielle LaPorte

#35. Jacob opened the refrigerator and stared into it vacantly, with the false purposefulness that lingers for a few moments when a person of a solitary nature is released from the company of a strong personality.

Caleb Crain

#36. In American prisons, which are extraordinarily violent places, the most vicious form of punishment is simply to lock a person in an empty room for years with absolutely nothing to do. This emptying of any possibility of communication or meaning is the real essence of what violence really is or does.

David Graeber

#37. I don't think you can define how you acquire your imagination any more than you can define why one person has a sense of humor and another doesn't. But I certainly would lean to the side that says all those solitary hours of daydreaming were a kind of training for poetry.

James Tate

#38. confiscated, were subjected to torture, and were even killed.

Louay Fatoohi

#39. In my experience, the words "now just calm down" almost inevitably have the opposite effect on the person you are speaking to.

Elyn R. Saks

#40. her smile was always to me like the shining out of an angel's face from behind a mask where brave struggles with heavy sorrows had left deep imprints of mortality.

Megan Marshall

#41. The struggle against the weakness in yourself is never a solitary struggle. No person can achieve self-mastery or his or her own.

David Brooks

#42. Aesthetic criticism returns us to the autonomy of imaginative literature and the sovereignty of the solitary soul, the reader not as a person in society but as the deep self, our ultimate inwardness.

Harold Bloom

#43. No wonder we keep testing positive in their bicycle races. Everyone looks like they're full of testosterone when they're surrounded by Frenchmen.

Argus Hamilton