The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
Buddha

The wailing owl Screams solitary to the mournful moon.
David Mallet

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

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

The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
Cyril Connolly

The writing process for me is pretty much always the same - it's a solitary experience.
Sheryl Crow

There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have been the tortured poet, and there's so much mileage in that. But it's too late to stop now.
Richard Thompson

There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite.
John C. Reilly

True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.
Jose Bergamin

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

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
Jim Morrison

We were now arrived at the close of our solitary journeyings along the St. Joseph's trail.
Francis Parkman

When you've written a movie, you then get together with a whole lot of people and make it. In many ways, I think it is far nicer to be with people rather than being completely solitary.
Neil Jordan

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

Writing is a solitary occupation.
Bernard Cornwell

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

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
Franz Kafka