There is on the earth no institution which Friendship has established; it is not taught by any religion; no scripture contains itsmaxims.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Genuine love not only respects the individuality of the other but actually cultivates it, even at the risk of separation or loss.… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A solitary traveler can sleep from state to state, from day to night, from day to day, in the long womb of… — Lisa St. Aubin de Terán Copy Share Image
Understand, I'll slip quietly away from the noisy crowd when I see the pale stars rising, blooming, over the oaks. I'll pursue… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I am excessively slothful, and wonderfully industrious-by fits. There are epochs when any kind of mental exercise is torture, and when nothing… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
“The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
The cartoonist's work is solitary; even when dealing with editors and assistants, there is no such excitement as to creating unexpected drastic… — Katsuhiro Otomo Copy Share Image
The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
A culture may be conceived as a network of beliefs and purposes in which any string in the net pulls and is… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Francis Crozier believes in nothing. Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short . It has no plan, no point, no hidden… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“Solitude means withdrawal from an artificial and fictional level of being which men, divided by original sin, have fabricated in order to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
He [Zampano] probably would of insisted on corrections and edits, he was his own harshest critic, but I've come to believe errors,… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
I found solitary confinement the most forbidding aspect of prison life. There is no end and no beginning; there is only one's… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Do I dare disturb the universe? Yes, I do, I do. I think. Jerry suddenly understood the poster--the solitary man on the… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
The woods are never solitary — they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
In a Western or a thriller there is often room for reflection upon the coercive necessities; even, occasionally, some attempt to pose… — Andrew Tudor Copy Share Image
“What solitary people my family were! It amazed me that two of its members had ever gotten together to produce the others.… — Benjamin Kunkel Copy Share Image
Onstage, I enjoy the thrill of live performance - there is no substitute for that rush. On camera I enjoy the crafting… — Bryce Pinkham Copy Share Image
writers of novels are so busy being solitary that they haven't time to meet one another. But then, a writer learns nothing… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand, the… — John Milton Copy Share Image
(He) had not realized how much he needed this sweet, friendly sound. How much he needed someone to settle in next to… — Kathi Appelt Copy Share Image
It wasn't so long ago when all the so-called scientists said that humans were intelligent and that animals weren't, humans were the… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
I've been talking about income inequality in America for twenty years, and when I was president, people didn't pay much attention to… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
In the mythic tradition, the Mountain is the bond between Earth and Sky. Its solitary summit reaches the sphere of eternity, and… — Rene Daumal Copy Share Image
Get a single, solitary thought in your mind, and that thought - the precious love of Jesus. Go and live it out,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
But should we continue to linger amid a scene so featureless and wild, or venture adown some yawning opening into the abyss… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
He that is once "born of God shall overcome the world," and the prince of this world too, by the power of… — Ralph Cudworth Copy Share Image
“Jim had spent most of his life alone. The solitary nature of his disability and the constant moving had made it difficult… — Bonnie Dee Copy Share Image
When I was a little kid back in Moscow, Russia, I've always thought I would become an artist or a folk dancer… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Madame Michel has the elegance of the hedgehog: on the outside she is covered in quills, a real fortress, but my gut… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
In the last stage of the spiritual master's life, the devotees of the spiritual master should take preaching activities into their own… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Copy Share Image
Cinema is the most challenging art form that you as an artist can create. It's easier to paint a painting because you're… — Baran Odar Copy Share Image
So in the heart, When, fading slowly down the past, Fond memories depart, And each that leaves it seems the last; Long… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
“Like most, I was a solitary boy at first, keeping to my books and weeping in the hedgerows whenever I could get… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
![“He [Zampano] probably would of insisted on corrections and edits, he was his own harshest critic, but I've come to believe errors, especially written errors, are often the only markers left by a solitary life: to sacrifice them is to lose the angels of personality, the riddle of a soul. In this…” quote by Mark Z. Danielewski](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c08/mark-z-danielewski-2497_angel_he-zampano-probably-would-of-insisted-on_1576555.png)
