Che Guevara
Revolutionary, Guerrilla Leader
"A smoke in times of rest is a great companion to the solitary soldier."
Solitary quotes
Solitary
71 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Virginia Woolf
Novelist
"Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement."
Henry David Thoreau
Writer, Philosopher
"I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Author
"A solitary being is by instinct a wanderer."
Ovid
Poet
"You will be melancholy, if you are solitary."
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"Solitude is nothing that one can choose or retrain from. We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all."
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"The artist after all is a solitary being."
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"I am solitary as grass. What is it I miss? Shall I ever find it, whatever it is?"
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"The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable."
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"Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently"
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"Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life."
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"Never befuddle a solitary thrashing with a last annihilation."
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"I am alternately very gregarious - very sociable - and then very solitary."
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"The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary."
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"Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being."
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"Writing is one of the most solitary activities in the world."
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"I love all waste and solitary places."
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"Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel."
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"I think [Albert] Camus felt very solitary. You can see it in all his books."
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"My doom and my strength is to be solitary."
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"To love makes one solitary."
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"Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone."
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"My life is not merely a public phenomenon, it is a solitary adventure as well."
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"I'm perceived to be this solitary character, but nothing could be further from the truth."
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"It's solitary drinking that makes drunkards."
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