Observing Solitude Quotes & Sayings

The only knowledge that can truly orient action is knowledge that frees itself from mere human interests and is based in Ideas in other words knowledge that has taken a theoretical attitude. — Jurgen Habermas

Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves. — Henrik Ibsen

None of us can judge, we have no idea what it was like. You've spent your life devoted to someone else and neglecting yourself. — Adam Dennis

When Johnny Cash died, ... I picked up my guitar and got the idea that Bob Dylan was the last man standing, the last of the real gods. It was for Dylan, Cash, Lennon, Elvis that's what I was thinking. — Jon Bon Jovi

For me it's a compliment, playing baddie characters. I take it as a compliment. — Ben Mendelsohn

When pride and presumption walk before, shame and loss follow very closely. — Louis XI Of France

My short-term factual memory can be like water; events are a brief disturbance on the surface and then it closes back up again, as if nothing ever touched it. But it's a strange fact that my long-term memory remains strong, perhaps because it recorded events when my mind was unaffected. My emotional memory is intact too, perhaps because feelings are recorded and stored in a different place than facts. The things that happened deeper in the past, and deeper in the breast, are still there for me, under the water.
I won 1,098 games, and eight national championships, and coached in four different decades. But what I see are not the numbers. I see their faces.
'Pat should get a tattoo!' The kids laughed. 'What kind should she get?'
'A heart. She should get a heart.'
Little did they know. They are the tattoos. — Pat Summitt

There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets. — Diane Duane

He felt lonely. His solitude was thrown into relief by being observed. — Michael Frayn

Avalon will always be there for all men to find if they can seek the way thither, throughout all the ages past the ages. If they cannot find the way to Avalon, it is a sign, perhaps, that they are not ready. - Kevin — Marion Zimmer Bradley

But where danger lurks, the saving powers also grow. — Ulrich Beck

As a prisoner, I'm denied my sense of identity. I have no personality. I'm just a number. I have no rights. I have no say. I'm nobody. — Jim Tan