Solitary Life Quotes (page 2)

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• cheer
• images
• thinking

That image - of a little child being suffocated, or almost suffocated, by others who thought the whole thing was a game - melded with the furtive nocturnal slugs, and my solitary pacing and singing, and the separate, claustrophobic stairway, and the charmless abstract painting, and the gold-framed mirror, and the slithery green satin bedspread, and became inseperable from them. It wasn't a cheerful composite. As a memory, it is more like a fog bank than a sunlit meadow. Yet I think of that... Margaret Atwood

• fear
• manly
• nasty

No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. Thomas Hobbes

• accounting
• knowledge
• art

Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal. In such condition there is no place for industry... no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor,... Thomas Hobbes

• bride
• girl
• girls

Jane Eyre, who had been an ardent, expectant woman? almost a bride, was a cold, solitary girl again: her life was pale; her prospects were desolate. Charlotte Bronte

• intelligent
• feeling
• communication

In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every thought and feeling remains incommunicable, locked up in the impenetrable strong-room of the individual soul and body. Our life is a sentence of perpetual solitary confinement. Aldous Huxley

• life
• loneliness
• men

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence. Tom Wolfe

• life
• skin
• insiders

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

• look
• time
• to live

I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading. Lynda Barry