#solitary

I own a crevice stuffed with moss and a couch of lemming fur; I sit and listen to the music of water dripping on a distant stone. Or I sing to myself of stealth and loneliness No one comes to see me but I hear outside the scratching of claws, the warm, inquisitive breath … (from 'The Hermitage') ↗

— John Meade Haines

#wilderness #music

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#lucky #million #realities #solitary #totally

True solidarity is only possible among the solitary. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

#only #possible #solidarity #solitary #true

As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison, we continue to release, our media partners continued to write stories. The important revelations from this material continue to come out. We have approximately 2,000 cables into 250,000. ↗

— Julian Assange

#basement #cables #come #confinement #continue

I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading. ↗

— Lynda Barry

#i #life #live #looking #much

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#attraction #being #being strong #carries #carry

The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#free #interpretation #less #make #more

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast. ↗

— Buddha

#any #found #good #groups #like

I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea. ↗

— Dan Farmer

#fairly #i #learning #like #people

The writing process for me is pretty much always the same - it's a solitary experience. ↗

— Sheryl Crow

#experience #me #much #pretty #process