It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

I’m solitary as a pulled tooth, Lonely as an unwelcome truth, Lost as a minnow out of school, A genius in a crop of fools.

There are numerous who desire for the basic answers of principle or announcement. They are on the left and right. They are not bound to a solitary piece of the general public. They are psychological militants of the brain

An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagances of solitary and uncorrected speculation.

Despite my solitary life, I have found infinite joy in books and writing, and am by far too much interested in the affairs of the world to quit the scene before Nature shall claim me.

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

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, nasty, brutish, and short

The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.

Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.

The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.

Should a seeker not find a companion who is better or equal, let them resolutely pursue a solitary course.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform a million realities.