“I do not consider my deeds or my knowledge to be a great thing. The only fact is — and I can… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. Thus religion is solitariness; and if you are never solitary, you are… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Because I have become such a solitary, and not in the Aristotelian sense: not a beast, not a god. Rather, a loner… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
When we haven't the time to listen to each other's stories we seek out experts to tell us how to live. The… — Rachel Naomi Remen 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
What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours-that… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music. — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
The last man! Yes I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race,… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
We all have secret lives. The life of excretion; the world of inappropriate sexual fantasies; our real hopes, our terror of death;… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
And now I was lonelier, I supposed, than anyone else in the world. Even Defoe's creation, Robinson Crusoe, the prototype of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
Canada, having few indigenous prejudices, has been compelled to import them from elsewhere, duty-free, and it is the rare Canadian who is… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
“I'm sixteen with what I hope will be a long life ahead, but I'm willing to give it up, to give anything… — Travis Thrasher Copy Share Image
There's a part of me that wishes I'd never said one single solitary word on any subject publicly. Then I could have… — Richard Thompson Copy Share Image
To me there is no more depressing sight than a five-year-old staring at a screen, unsmiling, mouse in hand. Besides whatever dreadful… — Tom Hodgkinson 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
The most optimistic thing that's happened is that as a society we're beginning to recognize that there are many voices. When I… — Wendy Ewald Copy Share Image
Children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way-and if you think of… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply. — Will Self Copy Share Image
When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I am lost without you. I am soulless, a drifter without a home, a solitary bird in a flight to nowhere. I… — Nicholas Sparks 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
Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
