Solitude Quote by Chris Bohjalian Download Open image ““Welcomes seclusion. Not precisely antisocial, but reclusive.”” — Chris Bohjalian ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Solitude
“Seclusion wasn't good for anyone; it made you forget how to protect yourself.” — Heather James Copy Share Image
“It is easy to criticize the antisocial, but hard to get close to know what keeps them at bay.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of having good intentions.” — José N. Harris Copy Share Image
“I have recently been called antisocial, and I'd like to set the record straight. I am not antisocial, I like social. It's people I… — Greg Curtis Copy Share Image
“One becomes accustomed to one's solitude, and it begins to seem rather phony to try to reach out.” — Louisa Hall Copy Share Image
“If anything there appears to be an indignant kind of mateship here, a loyalty that precludes empathy.” — Anna Krien Copy Share Image
“It seems that anonymity prompts people to disregard civility.” — Kyle Thomas Miller Copy Share Image
“FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.” — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“In a society as broken as ours, "antisocial" behavior is the only behavior worth defending.” — Lauren McLaughlin Copy Share Image
“You will usually find two kind of people around Some Sympathetic and Some Antipathetic and I'm not concerned with the former” — Waqas Bin Ehsan Copy Share Image
“The fact I choose to live my life without being bullied into seclusion, makes me a stronger person. I will not be led.” — Emma Paul Journal Copy Share Image
“I am unacquainted with a more deplorable spectacle than that of a people unable either to defend or to maintain its independence.” — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I think the most important lesson isn't necessarily to try and write a different book every time, or to try and brand yourself and… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
The honest answer is more complex. On some level I was sent. Or inspired. Or called. But my calling, such as it was, wasn't… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
“A term came to her that they used on occasion at the shelter: the double bind...They used the expression in much the same way… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
“But history does matter. There are lines connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Serbs and the Rwandans. They are… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
What is most important to me is that my narrator's voice is believable, and that, though it is clearly an absolute fiction, it has… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
He defined himself almost wholly in the negative: It was not who he was, it was who he was not. — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
“A moment later, all of the men at the party, stupefied by the way the hooker had gone banshee,” — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
“Those who participate in a genocide as well as those who merely look away rarely volunteer much in the way of anecdote or observation.… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
“The Beatrice that obsessed Dante was a Florentine named Bice di Folco Portinari. Envision this moment (and, in all fairness, I am envisioning it… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
“Boys look at us like we look at horses: color, height, eyes. tail. They can't help but have preferences.” — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing. — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
“But she insists the family hadn’t a choice. Not true. We always have choices. Isn’t that what Dante teaches us? I really have become… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
“Truth is, I’m generally happiest when it’s just me. It’s okay to be madly in love with yourself.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“How can you make an informed decision about whether to save the world if you never leave your tiny part of it?” — Shaun David Hutchinson Copy Share Image
“I still love to love my friends, but I punctuate those moments with solitude.” — Stephanie Klein Copy Share Image
You will not find a soulmate in the quiet of your room. You must go to a noisy place and look in the quiet… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“Point is, that’s when I really realized that I don’t think like most people. I’m fine with solitude. In fact, I get antsy when… — Dennis E. Taylor Copy Share Image
“...the solitude was intoxicating. On my first night there I lay on my back on the sticky carpet for hours, in the murky orange… — Tana French Copy Share Image
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Cease speaking of enemies when an achievement can kindle a great light. Solitude will transmit the message better than the murmurs of crowds. — Nicholas Roerich Copy Share Image
“Seclusion wasn't good for anyone; it made you forget how to protect yourself.” — Heather James Copy Share Image
