“He, who dares seek God's presence, will receive His blessings and favours.” — Lailah Gifty Akita 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
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 you're writing, it's a very solitary job. It's you and your word processor and a cup of tea. — Paul W. S. Anderson Copy Share Image
Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
'The Creative Habit' is basically about how you work alone, how you survive as a solitary artist. 'The Collaborative Habit' is obviously… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
...there must be an inviolate place where the choices and decisions, however imperfect, are the writer's own, where the decision must be… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I was drawn to be very solitary as a scholar. I lived a very quiet life, aloof, with my books, with my… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The cat, which is a solitary beast, is single minded and goes its way alone, but, the dog, like his master, is… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I have always written about characters who fall somewhere in the spectrum between solitary and totally alienated. — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
Everybody sees me as a solitary entity but I long to be important to somebody It's a love of fairy tales that… — Happy Rhodes Copy Share Image
He that has no present Christ has a future, dark, chaotic, heaving with its destructive ocean; and over it there goes forever--black-pinioned… — Alexander MacLaren 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
As President, I was able to save with the stroke of the pen a hundred million acres of wilderness area in Alaska.… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision is a… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
When Private Bradley [aka Chelsea] Manning put his conscience ahead of his personal well-being by allegedly releasing important information to the world's… — Ray McGovern Copy Share Image
Only the individual who is solitary is like a thing placed under profound laws, and when he goes out into the morning… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Only a God of love is fully personal. Thus the Trinity is crucial for maintaining a fully personal concept of God. As… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
There was something formless and perfect before the universe was born. It is serene. Empty. Solitary. Unchanging. Infinite. Eternally present. It is… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“It did not occur to me that absence of human companionship does not assure solitude. It may, on the contrary, plunge one… — Julian Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Over the years, I've found that I either live life or write about it. I can't seem to do both simultaneously -… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
A solitary American monk named Thomas Berry writes that in our relationship to nature, we have been autistic for centuries. Wrapped tightly… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
I was having an epiphany. A moment of supreme clarity, leading to what I dubbed a “realization of solitude” that goes like… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The solitary ascent of the Dru had the immediate effect of expanding the horizons of my ideas about mountaineering. It made me… — Walter Bonatti Copy Share Image
Shouldn't the American leadership be addressing what is happening in America, with its domestic policies on racism, discrimination, illegal monitoring, solitary confinement,… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image