By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion and morality to reinforce self-interest
Bertrand Russell
[on W.C. Fields] He was an isolated person. As a young man, he stretched out his hand to Beauty and Love and they thrust it away. Gradually he reduced reality to exclude all but his work, filling the gaps with alcohol. He was also a solitary person. Years...
Louise Brooks
Writing can be a very solitary business. It`s you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives.
Paul Kane
When you`ve written a movie, you then get together with a whole lot of people and make it. In many ways, I think it is far nicer to be with people rather than being completely solitary.
Neil Jordan
There`s a part of me that wishes I`d never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there`s so much mileage in that. But it`s too late to stop now.
Richard Thompson
The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The impacts are more a matter of logic. Do you need to be part of a group to be comfortable at a shelter? And is that hurting the solitary experience?
Brian King
Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children.
Al Carter
No phallic hero, no matter what he does to himself or to another to prove his courage, ever matches the solitary, existential courage of the woman who gives birth.
Andrea Dworkin
In this country, don`t forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There`s no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it`s the worst kind of hell for those who love you.
Billie Holiday
If I were spiteful, I would remind you that it is only fitting that a twisted, narcissistic psychopath, obsessed with public attention, will soon have his world reduced to an isolated solitary existence in an 80-square-foot cell doomed to languish away th...
Jeff Davis
I was placed in solitary confinement for a year and ten months out of the period in which I stayed in prison, which was just over two years.
Wole Soyinka
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
Maya Angelou
