“I own a crevice stuffed with moss and a couch of lemming fur; I sit and listen to the music of water… — John A. Haines Copy Share Image
You start to forget about the world outside - it's not relevant or relatable anymore. The darkest part of solitary confinement is… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail;… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Know for a certainty that if men understood how terrible is even one solitary sin, they would rather be cast into a… — Catherine of Genoa 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
Some writing is a really nice solitary process, in a way, because you can be a little self-conscious around other people. If… — Marketa Irglova Copy Share Image
Françoise could not help taking a surreptitious glance at Xavière: she gave a start of amazement. Xavière was no longer watching, her… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
To Hope "When by my solitary hearth I sit, And hateful thoughts enwrap my soul in gloom; When no fair dreams before… — John Keats Copy Share Image
That is why young people, who are beginners in everything, are not yet capable of love: it is something they must learn.… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I’m free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can’t really… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Christian society is like a bundle of sticks laid together, whereof one kindles another. Solitary men have fewest provocations to evil, but,… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
“But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Gideon was a man who’d lived an entirely solitary life, and yet he’d accepted me into it so completely that he could… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
“Thinking, existentially speaking, is a solitary but not a lonely business; solitude is that human situation in which I keep myself company.… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I sat, a solitary man, In a crowded London shop, An open book and empty cup On the marble table-top. While on… — Anonymous 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
“A broken heart is something even I can’t protect you from. I’ve been alone for so long, and believe me, all that… — Carol Oates Copy Share Image
HOW I FEEL WHEN YOU'RE GONE: abandoned, alone, apart, by oneself, comfortless, companionless, deserted, desolate, destitute, disconsolate, down, empty, estranged, forsaken, godforsaken,… — Leslie Copy Share Image
“A body seems a solitary thing until each cell inside it gains its own voice, and when all shriek in terror at… — Josin L. McQuein 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
A minor fief had risen up against their cruel and avaricious lord, with hundreds of people surrounding his Manor house, threatening to… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
There is on the earth no institution which Friendship has established; it is not taught by any religion; no scripture contains itsmaxims.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Genuine love not only respects the individuality of the other but actually cultivates it, even at the risk of separation or loss.… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
I'm very fortunate in that all the mediums I work in are extremely collaborative. Movies are probably the most solitary on a… — Marc Guggenheim Copy Share Image
Neurotic identity crises come when our defense mechanisms have been too successful and we're encapsulated in the fortress we have constructed with… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
I think most cartoonists are solitary, lonely kids who use their work as a way to try to connect with the world.… — Adrian Tomine 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
The lover's discourse was of an extreme solitude. The solitude was extreme because it wasn't physical. It was extreme because you felt… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted street, at dawn.… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
She was a ghost in a strange house that overnight had become immense and solitary and through which she wandered without purpose,… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The dreamers are the saviors of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their… — James Allen Copy Share Image
