Children Quote by Christian Bobin

“Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted and slightly savage if…

— Jessamyn West

“Life is what happens in-between writing; almost always a necessary inconvenience.”

— Ivor W. Hartmann

“We're in our own world, and we're in the world that has been given us outside, and the problem is to achieve3 a harmonious…

— Joseph Campbell

Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.

— Phillips Brooks

Society ... is nothing more than the war of a thousand petty opposed interests, an eternal strife of all the vanities, which, turn in…

— Nicolas Chamfort

“Life is limited, but by writing, and reading, we can live in different worlds, get inside the skins and minds of other people, and,…

— Joan Lingard

If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this…

— Joseph Brodsky

At one and the same time, therefore, society is everything and society is nothing. Society is the most powerful concoction in the world and…

— Virginia Woolf

A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading.

— Alberto Manguel

“What do you mean when you say society? Where is this society? This is one of the greatest escapes – only individuals exist –…

— Osho

Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do…

— Julien Green

“Life is just a series of events that occur to collect wisdom for the universal collective. It is just how you perceive it and…

— Kenneth G. Ortiz