Solitary Life Quotes

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favourable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad.

Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

I grew up as a man because I was by myself.

I live a generally quiet life, as it were.

I think for me it's just a matter of staying keyed into my lifelong friends from New York and family. And, you know, I'm pretty solitary. I'm a homebody. So I don't get out much to get into trouble

I definitely keep myself to myself; I don't really go out. If my friends want to see me, they know to come around to my house.

Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.

'Et Tu, Babe' was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer's life was solitary and insular, and I was happy with that. I love reading and writing; it's my whole life.

To Hope "When by my solitary hearth I sit, And hateful thoughts enwrap my soul in gloom; When no fair dreams before my 'mind's eye' flit, And the bare heath of life presents no bloom; Sweet Hope, ethereal balm upon me shed, And wave thy silver pinions o'er my head.

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.

I have been on my own all my life except during those touring days.

I came from a childhood where I spent a lot of time alone and a lot of time just living with my imagination, and a certain amount of the adult world was kind of alienating.

Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister

My life is really quite conservative. I've been married nearly 50 years. I don't have hobbies or children. I don't much care to travel. I've never had a big social life. I really just stay home, except when I go to work.

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything.

With my hours, I don't hang out with anybody. I work and come home to my Upper West Side apartment.

People living alone get used to loneliness.

The painter or draftsman ought to be solitary, in order that the well-being of the body not sap the vigour of the mind.

There's definitely a solitary aspect to not having a band, and there are times when I wish that I did.

Cavendish was a great Man with extraordinary singularities-His voice was squeaking his manner nervous He was afraid of strangers & seemed when embarrassed to articulate with difficulty-He wore the costume of our grandfathers. Was enormously rich but made no use of his wealth... He Cavendish lived latterly the life of a solitary, came to the Club dinner & to the Royal Society: but received nobody at his home. He was acute sagacious & profound & I think the most accomplished British Philosopher of his time.