All alone Quote by Daniel Topolski

The distance runner is mysteriously reconciling the separations of body and mind, of pain and pleasure, of the conscious and the unconscious. He is…

— Anonymous

“Running was the way he dreamed. Having never been in control of his life, his idea of freedom was simply to break free. He…

— Orson Scott Card

“He was so perplexed that, in spite of everything surrounding him, he stood several times stock still in the middle of the pavement, completely…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Running to him was real; the way he did it the realest thing he knew. It was all joy and woe, hard as a…

— John L. Parker Jr

“That’s when he’d run and run until he was nothing more than two feet and a pair of lungs, until he coughed blood and…

— Carmen Amato

“Lot had always enjoyed running, it gave him a beautiful freedom from his own insecurities. It was an opportunity to switch everything off, transfer…

— Dave Johnston

He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess,…

— Jack London

It was the most emphatic display of selflessness I have seen on a football field. Pounding over every blade of grass, competing as if…

— Alex Ferguson

“In order to succeed he must remain true to the feeling that had inspired him in the first place. It didn't matter that other…

— Rachel Joyce

“There was something terribly sad, yet terribly uplifting, about watching this prophet of the ancient art of distance running turning his back on everything…

— Christopher McDougall

As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as a cold immutable fact,…

— Lev Grossman

His love of danger, his intense appreciation of the drama of an adventure--all the more intense for being held tightly in--his consistent view that…

— Anonymous