During the days I felt myself slipping into a kind of madness. Solitary confinement has an astonishing effect on the mind. The… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
There is something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on earth but not quite. — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
The mind is endless. You put me in a dark solitary cell, and to you that's the end, to me it's the… — Charles Manson Copy Share Image
The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
the whistle of the old steam trains ... could conjure up visions of bleak distances with one solitary wail. — M.C. Beaton 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
When I was growing up, books took me away from my life to a solitary place that didn't feel lonely. They celebrated… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Something struck me in Africa, in black Africa, where polygamy is legal: the solitary woman is the rule there, from at an… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
A prisoner lived in solitary confinement for years. He saw and spoke to no one and his meals were served through an… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
The fruit of solitude is increased sensitivity and compassion for others. There comes a new freedom to be with people. There is… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A flower more sacred than far-seen success Perfumes my solitary path; I find Sweet compensation in my humbleness, And reap the harvest… — John Townsend Trowbridge Copy Share Image
The artist's task is to become a successful eccentric, a strange but wise duck able to venture out of solitary confinement and… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence, for no lonely bird would sing Into… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
Having animals in the city is entirely different from having animals out in the country. For one thing, it's more social. When… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
I read like a crazy person, I play the piano, and I'm a photographer. I always say my photography keeps me sane.… — Alaina Huffman Copy Share Image
If we were able to put every single solitary cancer cell that has a genomic - had their genome done in one… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
I think for me it's just a matter of staying keyed into my lifelong friends from New York and family. And, you… — Debra Messing Copy Share Image
To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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