In a society where people are obsessed with personal space, dogs have come to serve as welcome, neo-human mediators of loneliness and solitude.
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You wrote words with your hand, but your mind wiped me away.
OKEY NDIBE Americans can't stand any stranger looking them in the face. They take it as an insult. It's somethi...
OKEY NDIBE Solitude is not the same as loneliness. Solitude is a solitary boat floating in a sea of possible co...
ROBERT FULGHUM Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.
HONORé DE BALZAC Ged saw all these things from outside and apart, alone, and his heart was very heavy in him, though ...
URSULA K. LE GUIN For scientific achievements to serve the most possible people, scientists should work in a responsib...
KOICHIRO MATSUURA In a world where we are forced to conform to society, it is necessary to have personal chaos
T. ALAN ARMSTRONG People don't know what price people paid to make America human. In cities where we were marching, wh...
WILLIAM KENNEDY Solitude is the playfield of Satan. - Pale Fire, 1962.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV To fly from, need not be to hate, makind: All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor is it di...
GEORGE GORDON BYRON A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
RAINER MARIA RILKE Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. ...
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER Sometimes I need what only you can provide, your absence.
ASHLEIGH One can acquire everything in solitude except character. - On Love, 1822.
STENDHAL Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. - Among My Bo...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie. - The Silence of the Sea.
HILAIRE BELLOC We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
PATRICIA SAMPSON Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothe...
MIGUEL DE UNANIMO He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts. - Love's Cure, 1647.
FLETCHER There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire. -...
JULES RENARD Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream. - The...
ROGER ROSENBLATT Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone...
OCTAVIO PAZ To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitteres...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything...
BALTASAR GRACIAN Silence is one great art of conversation.
ANONYMOUS The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
ANONYMOUS As a society, we have come to a point where people too often treat one another
as objects and opport...
GAIL PURSELL ELLIOTT We live in a consumer world where people are obsessed with keeping up with the Joneses.
BOB JENNINGS Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing.
FRED ROGERS Basically, most good science in space flight has to do with the behavior of the human body in space....
CHARLES SIMONYI The solitude of our human souls is howled at the stars night after night by dogs.
MARIANA FULGER As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but ...
TAYLOR WILSON There is a huge sense of loneliness as people leave villages and move to cities. It's hard to fi...
MOHSIN HAMID We are acting as facilitators, as mediators, as brokers if you will. We are helping them bring this ...
AHMAD FAWZI I've heard people say in the U.N. community among mediators they don't like women as mediato...
ABIGAIL DISNEY Circles create soothing space, where even reticent people can realize that their voice is welcome.
MARGARET J. WHEATLEY We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with ...
EDWARD ABBEY There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.
MAGGIE SMITH You'll see dogs here of all shapes and sizes. As long as they're on a lead and have been vaccinated,...
JACK NUGENT We wanted to create a space where people can come down, have a bit of fun, take a load off.
ELIZABETH HOLDER His act was rather that of a harmless lunatic than an enemy. We were not so new to the country as no...
AMBROSE BIERCE We'd love to have people come by on a regular basis. If you want to spend time with our dogs and cat...
JACK FISHER If Space and Time are curved, where do all the straight people come from? D
OWEN ROWLEY The beauty of being comfortable in solitude is when we connect to someone deeply in our thoughts. Th...
ASCETIC ANGEL It’s the strangest thing about this church - it is obsessed with sex, absolutely obsessed. Now, th...
STEPHEN FRY When you sell (hot dogs) at $2.50 apiece, you have to be where a lot of people are.
FREDRICA THODE I'm obsessed with dogs. I've wanted one for eight years.
BESSA HOUSEKNECHT Sometimes he felt his loneliness. But these moments of solitude and loneliness gave meaning to his e...
AVIJEET DAS It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is as true of men as of dogs.
ERIC HOFFER My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like t...
DWIGHT YOAKAM Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.
ANNA NEAGLE How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a ...
CRISS JAMI No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disag...
DEAN KOONTZ It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.
ERIC HOFFER It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.
ERIC HOFFER Welcome to America, a Wall Street Corporation
Where the stockholders are rich and own this nati...
JUSTIN WETCH I come from a fragmented society. A country proud to serve as a bridge between Europe and Asia yet u...
SAFAK PAVEY Lost dogs, especially like this one with a skittish temperament, are likely not going to come up to ...
KAT ALBRECHT Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
MAY SARTON A lot of people are obsessed with looking cool. They feel they have to look after their image.
ADRIAN EDMONDSON Our main goal is to serve people as quickly as possible. You need to have towers where people need c...
DAN WHITE The First Nations Financial Transparency Act insulted the integrity of the very people in our commun...
EDEN ROBINSON In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and de...
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE Impulses of deeper birth have come to him in solitude.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not ...
ERIC HOFFER The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not ...
ERIC HOFFER I am obsessed with delivering value to investors and winning the game from a personal standpoint.
BILL GROSS As you may follow, they are an extremely hostile species (i.e. there is no word for ‘welcome’ in...
CHRISTINA ENGELA (It) indicates that this stereotype of Muslim Arabs in our society has reached a point where even me...
JACK SHAHEEN Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.
MAY SARTON Neither love nor hate, nor any order of intense adherence to personal involvement in human experienc...
WILLIAM SAROYAN The landscape of human emotion is ominously changing. The visceral sensation of loneliness and solit...
DANNY CASTILLONES SILLADA Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
PAUL TILLICH It's because we live in a beauty-obsessed society where the most important thing a woman can do is m...
LIANE MORIARTY Whatever flaws or personal failings afflict them, it remains the case that the overwhelming majority...
KEITH O'BRIEN Since far fewer people are recruited to serve in a voluntary military, the connection between Americ...
JOHN M. MCHUGH We welcome the fact that someone else will want to serve the public. I welcome the people getting ch...
LINDA FLOYD Being stigmatied by sex is being marked by its meaning in a human life of loneliness and imperfectio...
ANDREA DWORKIN This time of year we go through as much as 100 gallons of juice a day in samples alone. Customers ar...
DAVE NICELY This neo-minimalism super cold stuff is weird to me. I need a place where I can come home and take m...
FRANK GEHRY Certainly solitude is dangerous for active minds. We require around us men who can think and talk. W...
GUY DE MAUPASSANT There is a society in the deepest solitude.
ISAAC D'ISRAELI People see space as a place where you go and cooperate.
ELLEN STOFAN There is no such sense of solitude as that which we experience upon the silent and vast elevations o...
J. SHERIDAN LE FANU What we're doing right now is people are coming in and putting deposits on orders, and we're assigni...
AMY GREEN With solitude, however, fervently it is desired and embraced, comes loneliness. T. H White, the auth...
CAROLYN G. HEILBRUN There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk f...
TOM HANKS Americans are somehow obsessed with her, and something about me hit a spot with people in Japan.
UTADA HIKARU Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL We try to educate and recruit people to sing with us. We have two membership drives a year, but anyo...
JULIE MACGREGOR People nowadays don't treat their dogs as property. Dogs are seen as members of the family.
DICK SAMUELS Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and noth...
UGO BETTI Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and noth...
UGO BETTI We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.
MARCO RUBIO I've come home in love with loneliness
L.M. MONTGOMERY When I started, people would come to interview me, and just knowing that I worked in videogames - it...
YUJI HORII Loneliness is such an omnipotent and painful threat to many persons that they have little conception...
ROLLO MAY being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE When everyone leaves you its loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else its solitude.
ALFRED POLGAR