Solitary Quotes - Page 4

• Today I live on an island, in a house that is sad, hard, severe, that I built for myself, solitary on a sheer rock over the sea: a house that is the spectre, the secret image of prison. The image of my nostalgia. Maybe I never desired, not even then, to escape from jail. Man is not meant to live freely in freedom, but to be free inside a prison.

  Curzio Malaparte

  Men, Islands, Rocks

  Curzio Malaparte (2007). “Woman Like Me”, p.7, Troubador Publishing Ltd

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• Los niños tranquilos, solitarios y observadores crean su propio mundo y viven en él, alimentando su imaginación con el material que tienen a mano.

  Beatrix Potter

  Niños, Manos, Imaginación

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• A thousand people drowned in floods in China are news: a solitary child drowned in a pond is tragedy.

  Josephine Tey

  Children, People, Tragedy

  Josephine Tey (2013). “The Daughter of Time”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.

  Robert Wyatt

  Nature, People, Influence

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• You see if you tell yourself the same tale over and over again enough times then the tellings become separate stories and you will generally fool yourself into forgetting you started with one solitary season out of your life.

  Kaye Gibbons

  Enough Time, Stories, Fool

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• Escribo en alabanza del acto solitario: de no sentir una lengua intrusa metida a la fuerza en la boca, la respiración sofocada, los pezones aplastados contra la caja torácica y ese hormigueo metálico en la barbilla desencadenado por cierto nervio extraño: el desagrado.

  Fleur Adcock

  Writing, Solitude, Feelings

  Fleur Adcock (2000). "Poemas 1960-2000", Bloodaxe Books Limited

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• Las personas solitarias y farsantes no tienen relaciones; son bastante antipáticas.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Personas

  Elizabeth Bowen, Jack Lane, Brendan Clifford (1999). “"Notes on Eire": espionage reports to Winston Churchill, 1940-2”

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• Perhaps it was Maggie, perhaps not. In solitary moments magpies will perch on a branch and mutter soft soliloquies of whines and squeals and chatterings, oblivious to what goes on around them. It is one of those things, I suppose, intelligence now and then does, must in fact now and then do, must think, must play, must imagine, must talk to itself. ... What, finally, intelligence could be for: finding your way back.

  Stanley Crawford

  Thinking, Play, Bird

  Stanley Crawford (1992). “A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm”, p.86, UNM Press

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• Mathematical Mark all mathematical heads, which be only and wholly bent to those sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, and how unapt to serve in the world.

  Roger Ascham

  Learning, Math, Science

  "The whole works of Roger Ascham".

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• The solitary ascent of the Dru had the immediate effect of expanding the horizons of my ideas about mountaineering. It made me aware of possibilities well in advance of the times, which were characterized by very restricted methods. This was how the superb pyramid of K2 surfaced once more in the list of my projects. But I chose K2 as a way for giving concrete form to my new concept of mountaineering: to climb the second highest mountain in the world solo, alpine style, and without oxygen.

  Walter Bonatti

  Oxygen, Ideas, Pyramids

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• To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility; it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling on, in its dead indifference, to grind me limb from limb. Oh vast gloomy, solitary Golgotha, and Mill of Death! Why was the living banished thither companionless, conscious? Why, if there is no Devil; nay, unless the Devil is your God?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Devil, Rolling

  Thomas Carlyle (2009). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.230, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• My life is not merely a public phenomenon, it is a solitary adventure as well.

  Tom Robbins

  Adventure, Life Is, Wells

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.28, Bantam

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• We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Cities, People, Solitude

  Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, U of Minnesota Press

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• Silence is a very concrete, practical, and useful discipline in all our ministerial tasks.  It can be seen as a portable cell taken with us from the solitary place into the midst of our ministry.  Silence is solitude practiced in action.

  Henri Nouwen

  Taken, Cells, Discipline

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen”, p.23, HarperCollins

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• Sin el negocio del libro sería difícil o imposible que los verdaderos libros encontraran a sus verdaderos lectores, y sin esa solitaria (y potencialmente subversiva) soledad con un libro todo el jaleo de los premios, los banquetes, los espectáculos televisivos, las listas de los más vendidos, incluso los cursos de literatura, los editores y los autores, todo ello carece de valor. A menos que un libro encuentre amantes entre esos lectores solitarios, no vivirá... ni vivirá mucho tiempo.

  John McGahern

  Libro, Editores, Largo

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• Holmes has become the dark side of the moon for me. He is moody and solitary and underneath I am really sociable and gregarious. It has all got too dangerous.

  Jeremy Brett

  Oscuridad, Luna, Lados

  "he Man Who Became Sherlock Holmes - The Tortured Mind of Jeremy Brett". Book by Terry Manners, p. 212, March 20, 1997.

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• Brothers and sisters, one of the great consolations of this Easter season is that because Jesus walked such a long, lonely path utterly alone, we do not have to do so. His solitary journey brought great company for our little version of that path…This Easter week and always, may we stand by Jesus Christ ‘at all times and in all things, and in all places that (we) may be in, even until death,’ for surely that is how He stood by us when it was unto death and when He had to stand entirely and utterly alone.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Lonely, Jesus, Easter

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• If any of [my stories] succeed in causing their readers to feel pleasantly uncomfortable when walking along a solitary road at nightfall, or sitting over a dying fire in the small hours, my purpose in writing them will have been attained.

  M. R. James

  Writing, Fire, Dying

  M. R. James (2011). “Collected Ghost Stories”, p.406, OUP Oxford

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• There are a few exceptions, however, to this rule that our projection of ourselves is lower than the facts of Nature, and the unicorn — noble, chaste, fierce yet beneficent, altruistic though solitary, strangely beautiful — is the clearest exception of all.

  Odell Shepard

  Beautiful, Noble, Facts

  "The lore of the unicorn".

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• I worked 12 hours a day, seven days a week for years. Being a comic book artist is like sentencing yourself to life imprisonment at hard labor in solitary confinement. I don't think I'd do it again.

  Wally Wood

  Book, Artist, Thinking

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• Grave o trivial, su conducta diaria ha instituido un canon que millones observan hoy en día con memoria consciente. La conducta del fundador del cristianismo no ha regido la vida ordinaria de sus seguidores. Además, ningún fundador de una religión ha dejado una eminencia tan solitaria como el apóstol musulmán.

  David George Hogarth

  Recuerdos, Hombres, Raza

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• There are so many different elements to surfing. Small waves, big waves, long boards, short boards. This makes it a sport you can share with people. It's not just a solitary thing - it's become a family thing, too. It's about exercising and passing something on from father to son, and from mother to daughter.

  Kelly Slater

  Sports, Daughter, Mother

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Men, Mind, Arena

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• "El Universo se repite, con la posible excepción de la Historia". De todos los estudios terrenales, la Historia es el único que no se repite. ... La astronomía se repite; la botánica se repite; la trigonometría se repite; la mecánica se repite; la división larga compuesta se repite. Cada suma, si se calcula de la misma manera en cualquier momento, dará la misma respuesta. ... Muchos modernos dicen que la historia es una ciencia; si es así, ocupa un lugar solitario y espléndido entre las ciencias; es la única ciencia cuyas conclusiones son siempre erróneas.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Ciencia, Larga, Historia

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• The cat, which is a solitary beast, is single minded and goes its way alone, but, the dog, like his master, is confused in his mind.

  H. G. Wells

  Dog, Confused, Cat

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.7244, Delphi Classics

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