#solitary

Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time. ↗

— Emil Nolde

#art #beautiful #believes #days #egyptians

Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors. ↗

— Eugene O'Neill

#each #life #man #mirrors #solitary

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors. ↗

— Eugene O'Neill

#life #life is a #mirrors #solitary #walls

Sometimes the solitary voice can be the best one. ↗

— Frank Miller

#solitary #sometimes #voice

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

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

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

#exile #family #friends #full #his

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

#complete #family #friends #must #natural

A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority. ↗

— Graham Greene

#often #solitary #superiority

Writing is a solitary occupation. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#solitary #solitary occupation #writing