Solitary Life Quotes

• We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

  Tennessee Williams

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Orpheus Descending act 2, sc. 1 (1958)

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  You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

  Franz Kafka

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  "The Zürau Aphorisms". Book by Franz Kafka, 1931.

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

  Franz Kafka

  Suicide, Suicidal, Meditation Practice

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• 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.

  Tom Wolfe

  Life, Loneliness, Being Alone

  "The American Mercury", p. 467, "The Anatomy of Loneliness", October 1941.

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• The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Loneliness, Facts, Belief

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• Despite my solitary life, I have found infinite joy in books and writing, and am by far too much interested in the affairs of the world to quit the scene before Nature shall claim me.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Book, Writing, Joy

  H.P. Lovecraft (2008). “Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H.P. Lovecraft”, p.549, Hachette UK

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• 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.

  Saul Bellow

  Sadness, Long, Poison

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• No one can sum up all God is able to accomplish through one solitary life, wholly yielded, adjusted, and obedient to Him.

  Dwight L. Moody

  God, Able, Discipleship

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• A holy life is not an ascetic, or gloomy or solitary life, but a life regulated by divine truth and faithful in Christian duty. It is living above the world while we are still in it.

  Tryon Edwards

  Christian, Faithful, World

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.588, Ravenio Books

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• I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.

  Bill Nighy

  Men, Ideas, Solitude

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• God sees everything at once and knows what you are called to do. Our part is not to play God, but to trust God - to believe that our single, solitary life can make a difference

  Zig Ziglar

  Believe, Play, Differences

  Zig Ziglar, Dwight "Ike" Reighard (2013). “The One Year Daily Insights with Zig Ziglar”, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• A solitary life cherishes mere fancies until they become manias.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Fancy, Cherish, Mania

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2014). “Life of Charlotte Bronte”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• My life is a very interior and solitary life. I tend not to care that much about external things.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Care, Life Is, Interiors

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• Being a writer is a solitary life. So the little part of me that's an actor still enjoys the theatrical part of reading and doing the voices and telling the story.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Reading, Voice, Stories

  Interview with Juliette Lewis, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 24, 2011.

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• He [Zampano] probably would of insisted on corrections and edits, he was his own harshest critic, but I've come to believe errors, especially written errors, are often the only markers left by a solitary life: to sacrifice them is to lose the angels of personality, the riddle of a soul. In this case a very old soul. A very old riddle.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Believe, Angel, Sacrifice

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• Gideon was a man who’d lived an entirely solitary life, and yet he’d accepted me into it so completely that he could envision a future I was afraid to imagine. I was so scared I’d only be setting myself up for a heartbreak I couldn’t survive.

  Sylvia Day

  Men, Gideon, Scared

  Sylvia Day (2013). “Entwined with You”, p.64, Penguin

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• They do not signify, these landscapes of the mind, with their shocking instants of awareness. They merely resonate, like the chemistry of lovers, throughout our solitary lives

  Jim Perrin

  Climbing, Mind, Landscape

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