Quotes About Community

I always thought of deer as solitary animals that weren't very interesting. But my goodness, that was very wrong. The big eye-opener for me was that they're social. They have family groups.

True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.

When you've written a movie, you then get together with a whole lot of people and make it. In many ways, I think it is far nicer to be with people rather than being completely solitary.

I love getting out the house because writing is such a solitary business that even being at the library makes me feel part of the world.

Those who embrace belief in Christ Jesus are bound together in Him, in a real yet incomplete way, in his Body, the Church. Faith is never a solitary activity, nor can it be simply private. Faith in Christ always draws us into a community and has a public dimension.

Performing live on stage is such a community, whether it's my musicians or a cast of a show that I'm in. And then when you're in the studio or on set, it's a much more solitary experience. Both can serve me at different times in my life. And when I go back and forth from one to the other, it helps me appreciate all of them much better.

Novelists in particular love to rhapsodize about the glory of the solitary mind; this is natural, because their job requires them to sit in a room by themselves for years on end. But for most of the rest of us, we think and remember socially.

For me, acting has often been solitary. You're all together, and then boom, you're gone.

We as humans, we're not solitary people, we're like dogs, we like to live in packs and know about one another. And, if anything, fame is people trying to attain community on a mass scale, because when you become famous wherever you go people know about what you've done and what you're about to do.

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.

How different a creature is man in society and man in solitude!

Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.

People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.

I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.

I have a sort of Catholic-slash-Calvinist view of human nature, but every day I meet somebody who is doing cool things. So people get you out of your solitude and do things that exceed your expectations every day.

I can't do solitude.

As public as I seem with all my charity parties and entertaining, I actually spend a lot time in solitude and need it!

My father's a deacon, my mother's a choir director, so I grew up in the church and singing in the choir, begging my mom if I could have a solo.

Going through life solo isn't very exciting if you can't share it with somebody, you know?

Even if it is difficult playing with other people - sometimes it's great, sometimes it isn't, but that is kind of the point of it. It loses its point playing solo.

It's archaic to think about films as a solo lead or multi-starrer.

I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people.

I really value what Closed Sessions is doing to build the Chicago music scene and am excited to partner with them for my first solo project.