Travel is a vanishing act, a solitary trip down a pinched line of geography to oblivion. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
We cannot evangelize until we have been evangelized. This happens most powerfully through solitary prayer. — John Michael Talbot Copy Share Image
He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive. — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories. — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
I am solitary as grass. What is it I miss? Shall I ever find it, whatever it is? — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
A smoke in times of rest is a great companion to the solitary soldier. — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
I would have been content with any job however thankless, in any quarter however remote, if I had a chance of making… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
The painter or draftsman ought to be solitary, in order that the well-being of the body not sap the vigour of the… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Lonely as God, and white as a winter moon, Mount Shasta starts up sudden and solitary from the heart of the great… — Joaquin Miller Copy Share Image
I have three messages," said the breathless Nyad."One is we should never ever give up. Two is you are never too old… — Diana Nyad Copy Share Image
“Tokyo was a place you could quite happily exist alone and be self-contained. It seemed to promise that it was better to… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent,… — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
“Writing is such a solitary occupation that it takes a long time to build up a group of professional peers with whom… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of… — Tennessee Williams 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
A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Some people think that writers are innately solitary and that there's a kind of romance to that solitariness. I tend to think… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Running is a road to self-awareness and reliance-you can push yourself to extremes and learn the harsh reality of your physical and… — Doris Brown Heritage Copy Share Image
Poetry is a solitary process. One does not write poetry for the masses. Poetry is a self-involved, lofty pursuit. Songs are for… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The passage into mystery always refreshes. If, when we work, we can look once a day upon the face of mystery, then… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
Perhaps it was Maggie, perhaps not. In solitary moments magpies will perch on a branch and mutter soft soliloquies of whines and… — Stanley Crawford Copy Share Image
“He did not feel as if he were inside a Pillar of Darkness in the middle of Yorkshire; he felt more as… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
The spiritual journey is one that we must take "alone together," in the same way that a good marriage involves a dance… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
You don't believe that your friend could ever do anything great. You despise yourself in secret, even – no, especially – when… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
In mature years I have always been gregarious, a lover of my kind, dependent upon the company of friends for the very… — Edmund Gosse Copy Share Image
“We enter this universe alone in search of microscopic beauty—and while we love, or are loved by others—we leave this world completely… — Bruce Crown Copy Share Image
If you're a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean, you're supposed to leave something beautiful after you get off the page… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A society coming apart at top and bottom, or passing over into another form, contains just as many possibilities for revelation as… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
The Internet and blogging made writing somewhat more solitary and more splintered. It removes the whole sense of the magazine as an… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
“But this man Brown - it was difficult to place him at once. He talked, spreading his fingers out with the volubility… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
