{"quotes":[{"text":"I am not poor, I am not rich; nihil est, nihil deest, I have little, I want nothing: all my treasure is in Minerva’s tower...I live still a collegiate student...And lead a monastic life, ipse mihi theatrum [sufficient entertainment to myself], sequestered from those tumults and troubles of the world...Aulae vanitatem, fori ambitionem, ridere mecum soleo [I laugh to myself at the vanities of the court, the intrigues of public life], I laugh at all.","author":"Robert Burton","tags":["alone","hermit","people","public","quiet","solitary","solitude"],"id":8175,"author_id":"Robert+Burton"},{"text":"He, who dares seek God's presence, will receive His blessings and favours.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["answers-to-prayers","blessed-life","blessing-of-wealth","blessings-in-disguise","blessings","dare","dare-to-ask-questions","dare-to-seek","daring-life","divine-grace","faith-in-god","faith","favour","god","gods-grace","gods-power","gods-will","grace-and-divine","grace-and-favor","habits","habits-of-attention","hopeful-and-encouraging","hopeful-heart","power-of-god","prayer","prayerful-habits","praying","religion-and-philoshophy","religion-christianity","religion","religion-spirituality","solitary","spiritual","spiritual","spirituality","wisdom-inspirational","wise","wise-sayings"],"id":12042,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"At one point in your life you have to decide whether you want to become a sachem or a solitary.","author":"Akilnathan Logeswaran","tags":["grandchildren","life","live","sachem","solitary","solitude","story","storyteller"],"id":33523,"author_id":"Akilnathan+Logeswaran"},{"text":"Writing is such a solitary occupation that it takes a long time to build up a group of professional peers with whom you genuinely identify.","author":"Sara Sheridan","tags":["alone","identify","peers","professional-development","publishing","solitary","writers","writing"],"id":36972,"author_id":"Sara+Sheridan"},{"text":"The main thing about aliens is that they are alien. They feel no responsibility for fulfilling any of your expectations. (Dark City Lights).","author":"Robert Silverberg","tags":["alienation","aliens","anthologies","humanity","life","loneliness","science-fiction","short-stories","solitariness","solitary"],"id":40477,"author_id":"Robert+Silverberg"},{"text":"I'm sixteen with what I hope will be a long life ahead, but I'm willing to give it up, to give anything to let her live, to let her make it through the night.","author":"Travis Thrasher","tags":["christian","christian-fiction","good-reads","horror","redemption","solitary","solitary-tales-book-one-solitary","travis-thrasher","type-of-jesus-christ"],"id":49151,"author_id":"Travis+Thrasher"},{"text":"Lonely' is a troubling word and not one to be tossed around lightly. It makes people uncomfortable, summoning up as it does all kinds of harsher adjectives, like 'sad' or 'strange'. I have always been well liked, I think, always well regarded and respected, but having few enemies is not the same as having many friends, and there was no denying that I was, if not 'lonely', more solitary than I'd hoped to be at that time.","author":"David Nicholls","tags":["loneliness","lonely","solitary","solitude"],"id":55834,"author_id":"David+Nicholls"},{"text":"Live alone if staying together seems lifeless.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["alone","lifeless","lifelessness","live","seems","solitary","stay","together","wisdom"],"id":73296,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"Don’t be afraid of being alone; remember, when the sun rises, it rises with nobody at its side.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["alone","be-you","do-you","fearless","greatness","life-lesson","life-lessons","life-lessons","life","life","life","life-and-sayings","life-inspirational","matshona-dhliwayo","motivational","motivational-of-the-day","motivational","motivational-for-runners","motivational-for-women","rise","solitary","solitude","solitude","success","sun","sun-rise","unafraid"],"id":76727,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"...Very lonely and, often, very unhappy, with the poignant misery that comes to lonely people who long to be social and cannot, somehow, step naturally and unselfconsciously into some friendly group.","author":"Shirley Jackson","tags":["alone","come-to-the-fair","isolation","loneliness","lonely","misery","outcast","recluse","solitary","solitude"],"id":79890,"author_id":"Shirley+Jackson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":56,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}