Century Quote by Gary Zukav

When even the most strictly logical mind looks round and investigates the phenomena attending its own existence, perhaps the first fact to attract attention…

— Richard Jefferies

It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.

— Thomas Reed

The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his…

— Remy de Gourmont

The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--

— C. S. Lewis

Before us men have flourished just as we now flourish: others yet again shall be, whose generations we shall never see

— Greek Proverb

The common man, finding himself in a world so excellent, technically and socially, believes it has been produced by nature, and never thinks of…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

“I felt for the first time the premonitory of loneliness.It was all fantastic, and yet, and yet...He might be a poor lover, but I…

— Graham Greene

Stood I, O Nature! man alone in thee, Then were it worth one's while a man to be.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable... The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing…

— John Steinbeck

There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind,…

— Isaac Asimov

“We were the first human beings who would never see anythign for the first time. We stare at the wonders of the world, dull-eyed,…

— Gillian Flynn

“The restoration of man’s inner eyes can hardly be expected in this day and age — unless, first of all, one were willing and…

— Josef Pieper