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Solitary Quotes

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“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, Fire

Jonathan Franzen
“The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves onto a cyberworld: there’s no end of virtual spaces in which to seek stimulation, but their very endlessness, the perpetual stimulation without satisfaction, becomes imprisoning.”
Jonathan Franzen, Farther Away

“They all occupied the same space but did not occupy it together. Imagine a thousand leaves of tracing paper, each with one person lightly pencilled on it, all stacked atop a scene of a frozen city block. A thousand discreet and solitary realities that appear to be occurring in the same location.”
Doug Dorst, S.

Rainer Maria Rilke
“I believe that that love remains strong and intense in your memory because it was your first deep aloneness and the first inner work that you did on your life.”
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

Richelle E. Goodrich
“Even among familiar faces, people often feel invisible and desolate, like an island in cold waters or a shadow apart from the crowd. Be the reason another never feels alone.”
Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

Munia Khan
“You will never feel alone, if you run down the stairs of loneliness; as every solitary step becomes your companion.”
Munia Khan

Travis Thrasher
“I've got a lot of homework to do, and none of it has anything to do with school.”
Travis Thrasher, Solitary

Nathanael West
“It's solitary drinking that makes drunkards.”
Nathanael West, Miss Lonelyhearts

Charlotte Eriksson
“Are you in love? What makes your heart beat faster? What do you want people to think about when they hear your name.”
Charlotte Eriksson

“Some numbers, even large ones, have no factors - except themselves, of course, and 1. These are called prime numbers, because everything they are starts with themselves. They are original, gnarled, unpredictable, the freaks of the number world.”
Richard Friedberg

Hal Zina Bennett
“The art of writing is not as solitary as one might think. When it finally dawns on us one day that our task as writers is to share what we know of the human spirit, we suddenly discover that we were never truly alone.”
Hal Zina Bennett, Write from the Heart : Unleashing the Power of Your Creativity

Peter Straub
“Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinement.”
Peter Straub

Travis Thrasher
“I'm sixteen with what I hope will be a long life ahead, but I'm willing to give it up, to give anything to let her live, to let her make it through the night.”
Travis Thrasher

Pushpa Rana
“I would rather be alone than having a solitary company.”
Pushpa Rana, Just the Way I Feel

Caleb Crain
“Jacob opened the refrigerator and stared into it vacantly, with the false purposefulness that lingers for a few moments when a person of a solitary nature is released from the company of a strong personality.”
Caleb Crain, Necessary Errors

Sara Sheridan
“Writing is such a solitary occupation that it takes a long time to build up a group of professional peers with whom you genuinely identify.”
Sara Sheridan

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