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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 Gamaliel Harding

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

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

– Winston Churchill

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

If you are idle, be not solitary if you are solitary be not idle.

– Samuel Johnson

Written words in solitary are medicine.

– Sharon Greatwood Callen

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.

– Thomas Mann

Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.

– Robert A. Heinlein, "If This Goes On"

If you are idle, be not solitary. If you are solitary, be not idle.

– Samuel Johnson

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

– Samuel Johnson

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

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

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way throughout a thousand obstacles.

– Washington Irving

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

– E.M. Cioran

The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

– Thomas Hobbes, "The Leviathan"

The quiet and solitary man apprehends the inscrutable. He seeks nothing, holds to the mean, and remains free from entanglements.

– I Ching

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

– Karl Kraus

There is no such thing as a solitary Christian.

– John Wesley

There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

– Conan Doyle

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

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

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

– Jessamyn West

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

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