"Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness."

-- Edward Abbey

#Solitude Quotes #Depth Quotes #Madness Quotes

“I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones.”

Source : "How to travel like a rock star". Interview with Doug Miller, www.nbcnews.com. January 23, 2008.
“Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden.”
“The sport I love has taken me around the world and shown me many things.”

Source : Bonnie Blair, Greg Brown (1996). “A Winning Edge”, Taylor Trade Pub
“Same-sex marriage would eliminate entirely in law the basic idea of a mother and a father for every child. It would create a society which deliberately chooses to deprive a child of either a mother or a father.”

Source : "We cannot afford to indulge this madness". www.telegraph.co.uk. March 3, 2012.
“How many more times do we have to come to terms with death before we find safety?”
“A man who has no assured and ever present belief in the existence of a personal God or of a future existence with retribution and reward, can have for his rule of life, as far as I can see, only to follow those impulses and instincts which are the strongest or which seem to him the best ones”
“I long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it.”
“Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're starting fantasy, don't start with a nine-book series.”

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