The wailing owl Screams solitary to the mournful moon.

True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.

I'm a pretty solitary type of person.

It's taken me a long time to work out what people are thinking and what they're expecting. I am naturally solitary, and I'm comfortable with that.

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.

It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.

Few occupations pass the solitary hours more fruitfully than the playing of a musical instrument.

I think I'm a very solitary person. To actually not be anonymous is a bit claustrophobic for me.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

When I sing, it's the most solitary state: just me, and the microphone, and the holy spirit. It's not about notes or scales, it's all about emotion.

The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.

The free sharing and teaching of open source is incompatible with the notion of the solitary genius.

When I'm writing a book, I don't have any responsibility to anyone. I'm solitary. I'm writing on my own. I write by hand. And I write every day. I mean, it's part of my daily discipline.

Painting and writing are solitary arts.

Peter Sellers was a solitary character, always preferring to hide behind a mask, and consequently, you never really got to know the real Sellers.

Editing is kind of a solitary job.