Solitary Quotes

Well I've been writing books. So that, by its nature, is kind of a solitary occupation. And from time to time I have research help, but mostly I've done those completely on my own. - Caroline Kennedy

We work to make this country the kind of America they (U.S. veterans) were willing to die for... That's an America where the idea of sacred honor still has the power to stir men's souls. My solitary, solitary hope is that 100 years from today people will look back at what we've done and say, 'They kept the faith.' - Henry Hyde

We were now arrived at the close of our solitary journeyings along the St. Joseph's trail. - Francis Parkman

We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground. - Henry David Thoreau

We need the slower and more lasting stimulus of solitary reading as a relief from the pressure on eye, ear and nerves of the torrent of information and entertainment pouring from ever-open electronic jaws. It could end by stupefying us. - Storm Jameson

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict. - Jim Morrison

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. - Tennessee Williams

We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain. - Edward Dahlberg

We also wanted to create a community for young visual artists, such as musicians have. The pursuit of art is a solitary one. - Dale Lewis

Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors. - Confucius