#solitary

I own a crevice stuffed with moss and a couch of lemming fur; I sit and listen to the music of water dripping on a distant stone. Or I sing to myself of stealth and loneliness No one comes to see me but I hear outside the scratching of claws, the warm, inquisitive breath … (from 'The Hermitage') ↗

— John Meade Haines

#wilderness #music

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

— Maya Angelou

#lucky #million #realities #solitary #totally

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

— Lynda Barry

#i #life #live #looking #much

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#attraction #being #being strong #carries #carry

I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea. ↗

— Dan Farmer

#fairly #i #learning #like #people

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

#ecstasy #even #feet #freely #itself

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement. ↗

— Alice Koller

#achievement #alone #aware #because #being

I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner. ↗

— Steve Martin

#also #because #casual #childhood #circumstances

The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#man #more #solitary #task

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

— Eugene O'Neill

#each #life #man #mirrors #solitary