Solitary Walk Quotes

#1. I am not only retired from all public employments, but I am retiring within myself, and shall be able to view the solitary walk and tread the paths of private life with heartfelt satisfaction.

George Washington

#2. She had headed towards town aimlessly, looking for the kind of escape that could be found only in a solitary walk through a crowd.

Jade Chang

#3. Therefore, let the moon shine on thee in thy solitary walk; And let the misty-mountain winds be free to blow against thee.

William Wordsworth

#4. My first name - I have no middle name - was chosen by my father, as he told me, on that solitary walk in the forested hills. He selected it from a verse of the seventh chapter of Isaiah; there was no Immanuel among our ancestors known to him.

Immanuel Velikovsky

#5. Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections.

Jane Austen

#6. It's all still there in heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days and years to come.

Edward Abbey

#7. Don't get me wrong, I'm not ashamed of my body, I just don't see any reason to not cover it up as much as possible ... I'm someone who considered becoming a nun, for the outfit.

Julia Sweeney

#8. I've come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, more confident, and more beautiful individuals than someone making the solitary drudge to work without acknowledging their own interests and power.

Jason Mraz

#9. It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.

R. Lee Ermey

#10. The saddest human experience is to view alone the scenes one has viewed through other eyes - to walk solitary where one has walked in company - to have its particular barbed shaft aimed at one from every stick and stone that mark familiar ways.

Katherine Cecil Thurston

#11. The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. Programming is the art of telling another human being what one wants the computer to do.

Donald Knuth

#13. I am tired and drunk and still hungry. He is full of steak and Coca-Cola and, presumably, energy: enough energy to cross the road and walk up the steps inside the tower of the cathedral, which I have never entered.

Joanna Walsh

#14. I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home. I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as they are, grand and beautiful.

Henry David Thoreau

#15. Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads,
Great, hollow, bell-like flowers

Jean Toomer

#16. The ultimate meditation is: surrender to reality.
The more you fight, the more you are in conflict with it, the more you will be a loser.
In deep surrender, the ego disappears.
And when the ego is not there, for the first time you become aware of that which has always been there.

Rajneesh

#17. I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.

Walter Hill

#18. When was it I realized that, on this truly dark and solitary path we all walk, the only way we can light is our own? Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely.
Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.

Banana Yoshimoto

#19. Ruined chimneys rose above masses of broken bricks

Jerzy Kosinski