History Quote by Michael Finkel

“The life inside a book always felt welcoming to Knight. It pressed no demands on him, while the world of human interactions was so…

— Michael Finkel

“It's possible that Knight believed he was one of the few sane people left. He was confounded by the idea that passing the prime…

— Michael Finkel

“Only a man of genius can bare a solitary life.”

— Heather McGowan

“He was confounded by the idea that passing the prime of your life in a cubicle, spending hours a day at a computer, in…

— Michael Finkel

“A man becomes a solitary at the moment when, no matter what may be his external surroundings, he is suddenly aware of his own…

— Thomas Merton

“A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“I am a stranger in this world, and there is a severe solitude and painful lonesomeness in my exile.”

— Kahlil Gibran

“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“The most monumental events in all of human history all began with one person. And in a world that’s struggling, the one thing that…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Sometimes being surronded by everyone is the loneliest, because you'll realise you have no one to turn to.”

— Soraya

“There's no such thing as an ordinary human. Do you know, in 900 years of time and space, I've never met anyone who wasn't…

— The Doctor Matt Smith