I did a lot of research on what solitary confinement does to you, how you become acclimated to being surrounded by people again after being by yourself for such a long time. It's really a horrific thing. It's definitely worth considering it as torture. We're just not meant to be in solitary confinement.
One of the reasons the games business has become more popular and more broadly appealing is that it's gone from this very solitary experience to this very social experience.
The pushy showbiz kid thing was always the performance, not the person. I'm very solitary. I don't like socialising.
The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.
Writing is a solitary occupation; we don't really have any colleagues.
Novelists in particular love to rhapsodize about the glory of the solitary mind; this is natural, because their job requires them to sit in a room by themselves for years on end. But for most of the rest of us, we think and remember socially.
Painting and writing are solitary arts.
People sometimes have a view of programming that is something solitary and very technical. But programming is among the most creative, expressive, and social careers.
I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.
At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.
