Writing is solitary, so I love going out once in a while and meeting my readers. I'll often hang with them after… — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
“Being nervous. Having anxiety. Stuttering. Autism. When you have any of those, at some point, you're forced to spend most of your… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Despite my solitary life, I have found infinite joy in books and writing, and am by far too much interested in the… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
They do not signify, these landscapes of the mind, with their shocking instants of awareness. They merely resonate, like the chemistry of… — Jim Perrin Copy Share Image
If a traveller does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The temple of Ceres should be in a solitary spot out of the city, to which the public are not necessarily led… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As I paint, I realise, while it's something I do very much by myself, it's very solitary, the creative process feels similar… — Black Francis Copy Share Image
To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Nicholas Temelcoff is famous on the bridge, a daredevil. He is given all the difficult jobs and he takes them. He descends… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Perhaps the sad and empty language that today's flabby humanity pours forth, will, in all its horror, in all its boundless absurdity,… — Arthur Adamov Copy Share Image
I have always shook with fright before human beings. Unable as I was to feel the least particle of confidence in my… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
It's strange when they near your cell. You lose all your strength and you are like this. You lose all your strength… — Sakae Menda Copy Share Image
There are so many different elements to surfing. Small waves, big waves, long boards, short boards. This makes it a sport you… — Kelly Slater Copy Share Image
When it comes to girls (and in Colin's case, it so often did), everyone has a type. Colin Singleton's type was not… — John Green Copy Share Image
Most visual artists, just like most writers, tend to be solitary. While they're doing the art, that is. They may have a… — Eric Drooker Copy Share Image
He that has no present Christ has a future, dark, chaotic, heaving with its destructive ocean; and over it there goes forever--black-pinioned… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
The man who is unable to people his solitude is equally unable to be alone in a bustling crowd. The poet enjoys… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Every man that tried to destroy the Government, every man that shot at the holy flag in heaven, every man that starved… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“The years passed like the steps of a staircase leading lower and lower. I did not walk any more in the sun… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try… — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
“I have always hesitated to give advice, for how can one advise another how to act unless one knows that other as… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
The observations and encounters of a solitary, taciturn man are vaguer and at the same times more intense than those of a… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
And if, happy in the lot of no created thing, he withdraws into the center of his own unity, his spirit, made… — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Copy Share Image
Well I've been writing books. So that, by its nature, is kind of a solitary occupation. And from time to time I… — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely… — Paul Kane Copy Share Image
Plato conceived of philosophy as necessarily gregarious rather than solitary. The exposure of presumptions is best done in company, the more argumentative… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
“Are you in love? What makes your heart beat faster? What do you want people to think about when they hear your… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Stand-up is a very scary, very solitary profession, but you have to experience it to figure out if it's right for you. — Doug Benson Copy Share Image
For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand. — Beatrix Potter Copy Share Image
Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“But Socrates cannot but have been meditating upon something?... Can he ever remain solitary with himself -- and silent to his very… — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover. The social emotions it generates are… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
Solitude is not the same as loneliness. Solitude is a solitary boat floating in a sea of possible companions. — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand, with… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The New Testament does not envisage solitary religion; regular assembly for worship is everywhere in the epistles. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In some way impossible to ascertain, after so many years of absense, Jose Arcadio was still an autumnal child, terribly sad and… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image