#solitary

I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea. ↗

— Dan Farmer

#fairly #i #learning #like #people

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

#computer #desk #get #into #isolated

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

— D.L. Moody

#dwight #god #life #lyman #obedient

She didn't want to go far, just out of the trees so she could see the stars. They always eased her loneliness. She thought of them as beautiful creatures, burning and cold; each solitary, and bleak, and silent like her. ↗

— Kristin Cashore

#loneliness #silence #solitary #stars #beauty

We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#loneliness #solitary-confinement #solitude #life

Only boxers can understand the loneliness of tennis players - and yet boxers have their corner men and managers. Even a boxer's opponent provides a kind of companionship, someone he can grapple with and grunt at. In tennis you stand face-to-face with the enemy, trade blows with him, but never touch him or talk to him, or anyone else. The rules forbid a tennis player from even talking to his coach while on the court. People sometimes mention the track-and-field runner as a comparably lonely figure, but I have to laugh. At least the runner can feel and smell his opponents. They're inches away. In tennis you're on an island. Of all the games men and women play, tennis is the closest to solitary confinement.... ↗

— Andre Agassi

#loneliness #opponents #solitary-confinement #tennis #men

I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers. ↗

— Robert Wyatt

#collaborator #i #influences #like #nature

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

— Tennessee Williams

#inside #life #our #own #sentenced

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost. ↗

— M. Scott Peck

#between #change #course #depend #even

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

— Washington Irving

#create #disadvantage #every #irresistible #minds