Solitary Quotes - Page 6

• Something struck me in Africa, in black Africa, where polygamy is legal: the solitary woman is the rule there, from at an extremely young age, and the children are always the mother's responsibility.

  Dacia Maraini

  Mother, Children, Responsibility

  Source: wordswithoutborders.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Writing is a solitary activity, it requires isolation and silence.

  Dacia Maraini

  Writing, Silence, Isolation

  Source: wordswithoutborders.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Apollo pictures of the whole Earth conveyed to multitudes something well known to astronomers: On the scale of the worlds - to say nothing of stars or galaxies - humans are inconsequential, a thin film of life on an obscure and solitary lump of rock and metal

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Rocks, Apollo

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.25, Ballantine Books

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and the heart that melts at the tale of woe. We should not permit ease and indulgence to contract our affections, and wrap us up in a selfish enjoyment; but we should accustom ourselves to think of the distresses of human, life, of the solitary cottage; the dying parent, and the weeping orphan. Nor ought we ever to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.

  Hugh Blair

  Sports, Pain, Selfish

  8 Copy quote

• The bible knows nothing of solitary religion.

  John Wesley

  Church, Christianity, Knows

  John Wesley (2008). “The Heart of John Wesley's Journal”, p.11, Hendrickson Publishers

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.

  Richard Cecil

  Book, Character, Men

  Richard Cecil, Josiah PRATT (the Elder.) (1854). “Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... With a view of his character, by the Rev. Josiah Pratt ... To which is prefixed a memoir of his life signed: J. Cecil . Tenth edition”, p.53

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.

  Graham Greene

  Laughing, Superiority

  1982 Monsignor Quixote, pt.1, ch.9.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone.

  Jessamyn West

  Solitude, Easy, Born

  Jessamyn West (1973). “Hide and Seek: A Continuing Journey”, Harcourt

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Thrice happy he, who by some shady grove, Far from the clamorous world; doth live his own; Though solitary, who is not alone, But doth converse with that eternal love.

  William Drummond

  Solitude, Eternal Love, World

  William Drummond (1856). “The Poetical Works”, p.85

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel.

  Edward Young

  Love, Woe, Heels

  Edward Young, Charles Edward DE COETLOGON (1793). “Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job”, p.45

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It has been my experience that nothing changes a person's life more than the discovery of one solitary truth: There is a meaning and purpose to life. More specifically: There is a meaning and purpose to your life.

  Matthew Kelly

  Discovery, Catholic, Purpose

  Matthew Kelly (2015). “The Rhythm of Life: Living Everyday With Passion and Purpose”, p.30, BookBaby

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Silence comes in two varieties: One that nourishes and comforts; another that chokes, smothers, and isolates. Solitary confinement is the worst kind of imprisonment we can inflict on fellow humans, and if you are forced to keep silent about some dark secret, you live in solitary confinement. Without the bridge of communication connecting you to other human beings, you can’t share your burdens, can’t receive comfort, can’t confirm that you still belong. Silence is the abyss that separates you from hope.

  Martha Beck

  Communication, Dark, Bridges

  5 Copy quote

• If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you

  Martha Beck

  Break Out, Helping, Confinement

  7 Copy quote

• 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

  Lonely, Writing, Computer

  4 Copy quote

• I don't see myself as some kind of lone figure standing out there and doing my work in solitary splendour, but as part of the human condition and part of the continuum of writers.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Kind, Standing Out, Figures

  Source: www.newstatesman.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Freedom of a nation cannot be won by solitary acts of heroism though they may be of the true type, never by heroism so called.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heroism, May, Type

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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.

  67 Copy quote

  Show source

• The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Men, Ideas, Grudge

  5 Copy quote

• What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Space, Solitude

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.226, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Essence, Solitude, Faces

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2744, Delphi Classics

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My doom and my strength is to be solitary.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strength, Solitude, Doom

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1911). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.347, Рипол Классик

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is a sign of our times, conspicuous to the coarsest observer, that many intelligent and religious persons withdraw themselves from the common labors and competitions of the market and the caucus, and betake themselves to a certain solitary and critical way of living, from which no solid fruit has yet appeared to justify their separation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Intelligent, Competition

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1209, Delphi Classics

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Shah regarded politics as the province of demagoguery, an art in which only charlatans could excel. He had no time for what he saw as the tedious process of achieving consensus through debate and discussion and tried to justify his solitary exercise of power by insisting it was what Iran needed to catch up with lost time. He believed he was more patriotic than anyone else and needed no advice on how best to promote and protect the highest interests of the nation.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Art, Patriotic, Exercise

  21 Copy quote

• Westward, beyond the still pleasant, but, even then, no longer solitary, hamlet of Charing, a broad space, broken here and there by scattered houses and venerable pollards, in the early spring of 1467, presented the rural scene for the sports and pastimes of the inhabitants of Westminister and London.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Sports, Spring, Book

  "The Last of the Barons". Book by Edward Bulwer-Lytton (Page 23), www.theguardian.com. 1877.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am very fond of the modest manner of life of those solitary owners of remote villages, who in Little Russia are commonly called "old-fashioned," who are like tumbledown picturesque little houses, delightful in their simplicity and complete unlikeness to the new smooth buildings whose walls have not yet been discolored by the rain, whose roofs are not yet covered with green lichen, and whose porch does not display its bricks through the peeling stucco.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Wall, Rain, Russia

  Nikolai Gogol (1985). “The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol”, p.1, University of Chicago Press

  10 Copy quote

  Show source