People aren't wired to be alone. Even in the stressful population of prison, solitary confinement is still considered a cruel punishment. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
Writing is a solitary pursuit and I think you have to be partially at peace with yourself, but it's the other part… — Craig Johnson Copy Share Image
The man who follows Christ in solitary mourning is greater than he who praises Christ amid the congregation of men. — Isaac of Nineveh Copy Share Image
There were many things they simply didn't talk about: between them, silence was not so much a form of evasion as a… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Also, painting and animation are really solitary pursuits, so the collaborative aspects of music making and acting are pretty welcome sometimes. — Tunde Adebimpe Copy Share Image
That night as I lay in bed, I thought of several things I could have said and mourned the fact that my… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is… — Thomas Wolfe 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
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
Many male habitues of massage parlors, like Talese, did not like solitary masturbation; in the parlance of the younger generation, it was… — Gay Talese 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
The highest branch of solitary amusement is reading; but even in the choice of books the fancy is first employed; for in… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
How many a knot of mystery and misunderstanding would be untied by one word spoken in simple and confiding truth of heart!… — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
For most people, what is so painful about reading is that you read something and you don't have anybody to share it… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
if you want to be a little bit solitary and work very hard, you can do it more easily in New York… — Arman Copy Share Image
Those who surrender to the service of the poor through love of Christ, will live like the grains of wheat that dies.… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
Fly-fishing is solitary, contemplative, misanthropic, scientific in some hands, poetic in others, and laced with conflicting aesthetic considerations. It's not even clear… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and… — William Golding Copy Share Image
In this age of crowds in which I have determined to be a solitary, perhaps the greatest sin would be to lament… — Thomas Merton 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
Well, it's true that I've never been solitary, although I spend a lot of time alone. I've never felt lonely or been… — Richard E. Grant Copy Share Image
“It didn’t take much to turn a man solitary-being the new guy too often, being controversial now and then, a couple of… — Robyn Carr Copy Share Image
Writing, at its heart, is a solitary pursuit, designed to make people depressoids, drug addicts, misanthropes, and antisocial weirdos. — Mindy Kaling 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
The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
After a week of the contained chaos that is my job, I need some solitary running time. On Sundays, I can unwind… — Linda Jones Copy Share Image
“Oh now now he says that's all over you must forget all about that next week your solitary finishes how about that… — Patrick McCabe Copy Share Image
“She knows how things fit together and move, but so few people understand her. She’s the most solitary person I’ve ever known.” — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from… — Armstrong Williams Copy Share Image
There's a big difference between being alone and being lonely. And I'm guessing that once you've discovered this distinction you can't go… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
The more I see of life the more I perceive that only through solitary communion with nature can one gain an idea… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The saddest day has gleams of light, The darkest wave hath bright foam beneath it. There twinkles o'er the cloudiest night, Some… — Sarah Winnemucca 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 mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It seems there is no area in our culture that is not touched, changed, even swallowed by the Internet. It's both medium… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
Holmes has become the dark side of the moon for me. He is moody and solitary and underneath I am really sociable… — Jeremy Brett 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
The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Prophets, mystics, poets, scientific discoverers are men whose lives are dominated by a vision; they are essentially solitary men . . .… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
