Once more I realize that solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people (all naturally solitary… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
As an actor, I'm always playing solitary characters. But as a director, I'm always making ensemble movies, which focus on lots of… — Jodie Foster 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
Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Every solitary one of these aristocratic conspirators and would-be murderers claims to be an arch-patriot; every one of them insists that the… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
“It did not occur to me that absence of human companionship does not assure solitude. It may, on the contrary, plunge one… — Julian Hawthorne Copy Share Image
In tennis you're on an island. Of all the games men and women play, tennis is the closest to solitary confinement, — Andre Agassi Copy Share Image
Shouldn't the American leadership be addressing what is happening in America, with its domestic policies on racism, discrimination, illegal monitoring, solitary confinement,… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself. — Richard Cecil Copy Share Image
A great many wise sayings have been uttered about the effects of solitary retirement; but the motives which impel men to seek… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Decomposition, for most, starts when they leave the free, social, and uncorrupted college life for the solitary confinement of professions and nuclear… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea. — Dan Farmer Copy Share Image
Performing live on stage is such a community, whether it's my musicians or a cast of a show that I'm in. And… — Idina Menzel Copy Share Image
I think I'm a very solitary person. To actually not be anonymous is a bit claustrophobic for me. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
The true solitary ... will feel that he is himself only when he is alone; when he is in company he will… — Vita Sackville-West 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
In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is… — Billie Holiday Copy Share Image
I love the apparent quiet of reading a book. You sit there; you're not really moving. It looks very solitary. It looks… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
But a day must come when the fire of youth will be quenched in my veins, when winter will dwell in my… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading. — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
I begin to fully understand the lengths to which people have gone to protect me. What I mean to the rebels. My… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
If you want to design a successful human society you need to know what kind of animal we are. Are we a… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
