“Her solitary nature means she needs a family to keep her from loneliness my gregarious nature means I will never have to… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“It was a state of aloneness. It was the kind of place that started shooting political prisoners because it suspected that they… — Will Wiles Copy Share Image
“When we are all guilty, that will be democracy. Not to mention the fact that we must be revenged for having to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking,… — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
To some extent, all authors are a little schizophrenic. We lead most of our lives in solitary confinement, living and breathing the… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
I love getting out the house because writing is such a solitary business that even being at the library makes me feel… — Jane Green Copy Share Image
...they discovered only a small asteroid inhabited by a solitary old man who claimed repeatedly that nothing was true, though he was… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I feel certain that the largest part of all photographs ever taken or being taken or ever to be taken, is and… — Ben Maddow Copy Share Image
I didn't mind the 23 hours a day solitary confinement for the majority of the time, because after the first few years… — Nick Yarris Copy Share Image
Serious or trivial, his daily behavior has instituted a canon which millions observe this day with conscious memory. No one regarded by… — David George Hogarth Copy Share Image
As a very small child I found recorded noise and the solitary singer beneath the spotlight so dramatic and so brave... walking… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A novelist writes a novel, and people read it. But reading is a solitary act. While it may elicit a varied and… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
“It is in this gesture of "going beyond," to be something in oneself rather than the pawn of a consensus, the refusal… — Alexander Grothendieck Copy Share Image
I would like to start a discussion about ending solitary confinement. I'd like to start a discussion about the removal of MO… — Cecily McMillan Copy Share Image
When he grew old, Aristotle, who is not generally considered a tightrope dancer, liked to lose himself in the most labyrinthine and… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
“As change is a constant – as our houses, our money, our friends, our things and even our lovers can always disappear… — lauren klarfeld Copy Share Image
I tended to be a solitary young girl, and I still am. I would like to find a quiet corner and color… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
My father's very public life as Famous Amos was the opposite of that of his ex-wife, my mother Shirley, who was fighting… — Shawn Amos Copy Share Image
I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home. I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“ There are in this world human beings in solitary places who have answered the Lord's call to make of their lives… — Conrad De Meester Copy Share Image
Thrice happy he, who by some shady grove, Far from the clamorous world; doth live his own; Though solitary, who is not… — William Drummond Copy Share Image
Being a writer is a solitary life. So the little part of me that's an actor still enjoys the theatrical part of… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
By unseen hands uplifted in the light Of sunset, yonder solitary cloud Floats, with its white apparel blown abroad, And wafted up… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
People aren't wired to be alone. Even in the stressful population of prison, solitary confinement is still considered a cruel punishment. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
You know, then that the public Somebody you are when you 'have a name' is a fiction created with mirrors and that… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“I believe that that love remains strong and intense in your memory because it was your first deep aloneness and the first… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant! — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
He shall sit solitary by avoiding the company of men, he shall hold his peace by meditating upon the joys of heaven,… — Saint Bonaventure Sequoyah Copy Share Image
Headlining can be sort of solitary - you're sort of on your own out there, and you start to feel for a… — Jack Antonoff Copy Share Image
At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess,… — Dan Hill Copy Share Image
“Every herd is a refuge for giftlessness, whether it's a faith in Soloviev, or Kant, or Marx. Only the solitary seek the… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
It is always easier to capture eternity in the falling snow or along the coast where the waves crash and in solitary… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Who has not watched a mother stroke her child's cheek or kiss her child in a certain way and felt a nervous… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
I worked 12 hours a day, seven days a week for years. Being a comic book artist is like sentencing yourself to… — Wally Wood Copy Share Image
Writing is such a solitary thing, so it's nice, when I'm discouraged, to see people still have such faith in fiction. — Robert Boswell Copy Share Image
Creativity is a space for solitary longing, the desire to be elsewhere in space and time, to be in a new ideal… — Chenjerai Hove Copy Share Image
I do like Twitter. Writing is a solitary pursuit, and it can get lonely. I like to go into Twitter for a… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
Solitary confinement is too terrible a punishment to inflict on any human being, no matter what his crime. Hardened criminals in the… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
“Solitary the thrush, The hermit withdrawn to himself, avoiding the settlements, Sings by himself a song. Song of the bleeding throat!” — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image