Christ Quote by Max von Sydow

After close to a year of traveling, I had seen things in the world and in myself, both good and bad, that I had…

— Bethany Dillon

There were now and then, though rarely, the hours that brought the welcome shock, pulled down the walls and brought me back again from…

— Hermann Hesse

As I looked about the world, so much of it impoverished, I became increasingly uncomfortable about having so much while my brothers and sisters…

— Peace Pilgrim

In that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself--like…

— Albert Camus

I knew I was going from the flock of Christ and had no resolution to return, hence serious reflections were uneasy to me, and…

— John Woolman

For so much of my young life, I'd felt lonely, isolated, cut off from like-minded people. I yearned for human connections and relationships with…

— Kim Brooks

Had I not stepped into the saddle in the first place, entire cultures, histories, and most importantly, profound connections with people and animals whom…

— Tim Cope

Everyday brought me further away from other people, I had been placed out of the world's sight, as if in a cupboard, and I…

— Herta Muller

Melancholy had crept inside me. Small children made me cry, I got depressed eating meat, old book bindings awakened tenderness in me. Everything was…

— Mati Unt

The big change that's happened for me in terms of my own life and how outsidership is reflected in my work is that I…

— Ira Sachs

I went through a period in my life when I had no friends, when the phone never rang, when I thought I would die…

— Louise Penny

I spent so much of my life shut down from the abuse of my childhood. I didn't have friends and I didn't have connections…

— Bonnie St. John