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
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It's important that someone celebrate our existence... People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.
Lois McMaster Bujold
If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.
Samuel Johnson
The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
Thomas Hobbes
No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
Thomas Hobbes
They're not group animals, they're completely solitary, so if the baby's mother is taken away, there's no system of aunts ... their whole system is destroyed.
Joanna Lumley
I used to live too much of my life worrying about what other people thought, ... My dark and introspective life was solitary. It was valid, (but now) I finally feel like I have a family. I'm integrated. My friends are really important to me, and they have a lot to do with why this record is so (expletive) cool.
Bob Mould
And in the solitary state of oneness, man can meet himself.
William Harper
The dark-veiled silhouette that solitary form patrolling without visible strain or vainglory a demented dreamland of fearful potential.
Kathryn Hulme
Sometimes the solitary voice can be the best one.
Frank Miller
A lot of individuals who had been detained spoke of liberty and gratitude toward this country and a desire to stay, despite being put in solitary confinement for sometimes a year.
Jennifer Moore
He spends 23 hours out of 24 in solitary confinement. Before he had 18 months, 24 hours every day, in solitary, and that's where he developed eye problems and got depressed.
Terry Hicks
The Bible knows nothing of solitary religion.
John Wesley
During the 157 days that he has spent in solitary confinement, he has been deprived of consuming any fresh fruit and vegetables.
Massoumeh Shafiie
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.
Thomas Wolfe
One of the really special things about the Potters Guild is that we are all very solitary artists. But when we have problems finding a new glaze or technique, we share it with each other. It's kind of like being in a university or school setting. The club certainly serves a social and educational function. We have a wonderful energy that a solitary potter often loses and finds it hard to keep.
Karen Bell
Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.
Willa Cather
Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places.
Ernest Dimnet
Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.
Francis Quarles
The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself - where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.
Clark Moustakas
The wailing owl Screams solitary to the mournful moon.
David Mallet
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
A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even on solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it.
Vita Sackville west
The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.
Karl Kraus
If you are inclined to leave your character solitary for any considerable length of time, better question yourself. Fiction is association, not withdrawal.
A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
Of all the creatures that were made, man is the most detestable. Of the entire brood he is the only one--the solitary one--that possesses malice. That is the basest of all instincts, passions, vices--the most hateful. He is the only creature that has pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. Also--in all the list he is the only creature that has a nasty mind.
Mark Twain
I do not think that Mulder trusts any one other than Scully. He s very solitary. She is the only one who takes him seriously. I don t know if they re in love. In a way, their relationship is deeper than that, because they cannot live without each other.
David Duchovny
He wasn't able to talk to anyone he was in solitary, out one hour every two days, he was just all by himself. I'm sure he felt all alone and he just couldn't take it anymore.
Natalie Henderson
They were kept in solitary since 1997. They were in a behavioral shell.
Tim Binder
With one solitary rose, we say 'yes' to life and 'no' to senseless, violent murders.
William Cooke
Increasingly, we're becoming a society that has grown up with solitary gaming experiences on their computers, TV sets or personal game consoles. And I think people are going to casinos and discovering the community atmosphere on the gaming tables. They're finding out that, hey, it's fun to be around real people.
Joe Weinert
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
It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.
Jodie Foster
The solitary monk who shook the world.
Robert Montgomery
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.
Warren G. Harding
There is a need to discover that we are capable of solitary joy and having experienced it, know that we have touched the core of self.
Barbara Lazear Ascher
[At first, Kar said, he was suspicious.] I was scared that the government might have sent him to spy on me, ... No detainee in solitary confinement was allowed to talk to any other detainee, so it was unusual?. The MPs said that it was allowed only because we both were 'cleared.' Eventually, I realized he was not a spy, and I warmed up to him.
Cyrus Kar
If there was one thing that I took away, it was paying attention to every single solitary detail, no matter how big or small. Everything you saw up on that screen was there for a reason. There was nothing wasted. Not a single color, not a single creature. Every single creature in that movie had a name, not just a species name, but a personal name.
Ahmed Best
Solitary confinement ... Two months of staring at the four walls of my hotel room.
Diego Corrales
Theatergoing is a communal act, movie going a solitary one.
Robert Brustein
Writing is such a solitary endeavor. It gets people interested in and talking about writing.
Jamie Brown
The President said that it shall not be considered a solitary case and asked the National Police chief to investigate the case of forced prostitution and other related cases.
Andi Mallarangeng
Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
Eugene O'neill
It will be a hut for healing, for solitary reflection. It's very sculptural. We love the starkness of it.
Eido Frances Carney
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