The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma and ritual,… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Timing and arrogance are decisive factors in the successful use of talent. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab. ... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the boxes; a… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
the overwhelming majority of people who are engaged in the processes of thought and expression are Democrats because the essence of thought is exploration… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Surely the hold of great music on the listener is precisely this: that the listener is made whole; and at the same time part… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
