Isolation Quote by Jon Krakauer

“The detail over which these monks went mad with joy was the universe itself; the only thing really worthy of enjoyment. The white daylight…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Sent to the Monk" Night falls and the empty intimacy of the whole world fills my heart to frothing. The past has trudged to…

— Mary Ruefle

“What of ourselves? In actuality the monk’s journey is everyone’s journey, though in our frenetic world of activity and distraction we often miss the…

— Monks of New Skete

“Monasticism had transformed the humble work of discipleship into the meritorious activity of the saints, and the self-renunciation of discipleship into the flagrant spiritual…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“The monks used to say that he was more drawn to those who were more sinful, and the greater the sinner the more he…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Buddha going down with the ship, while the bed gradually swamped, and the cold seawater lapped up over his knees.”

— Lev Grossman

“Being a monk was the strangest and most perverted way of life imaginable. Monks spent half their lives putting themselves through pain and discomfort…

— Ken Follett

“[...] The monks sped up the process up for us laowai who have less time, less patience for basics, and a greater need for…

— Matthew Polly

“the monastery is not a place to hide from problems; it is a place to face them, whether they are personal sin, human brokenness,…

— Carrie Gress

“Monks and writers lead very similar lives. We spend our best time in retreat from the world, anxious to make something of our rich…

— Rougeau a Benedictine Monk

“As we drew nearer we could see that the three men fishing seemed old and solemn-looking men. They sat on three chairs in the…

— Jerome K. Jerome

“The desire of monks and mystics is not unlike that of artists: to perceive the extraordinary within the ordinary by changing not the world…

— Jane Hirshfield