Isolation Quotes

Isolation is a dream killer.

— Barbara Sher

“I wonder why the normies get so touchy-feely.”

— Wataru Watari

The arts don't exist in isolation.

— David Byrne

“Isolation is the first step of revolution.”

— Yash Thakur

It's important to have quiet time and isolation.

— John Burnside

“Sometimes it's isolation before elevation.”

— Felicia Miracle Hankins

Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.

— Anonymous

Isolation is a big part of songwriting.

— Natalie Imbruglia

“Even a day in isolation has so many options for spending time.”

— Steven Redhead

I feel like I've always been writing in isolation.

— Gracie Abrams

“Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while.”

— Ben Marcus

“The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation. I”

— Bruce D. Perry

I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity

— Elfriede Jelinek

Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair.

— Bell Hooks

“He can have friends. It's parents he can't have.”

— Orson Scott Card

Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained.

— Roger Williams

Something in our nature cries out to be loved by another. Isolation is devastating to the human psyche. That is why solitary…

— Gary Chapman

So many writers grew up in tortured isolation, in revolt against their families. I and my sister were in a house where…

— George Packer

A person is a person through other persons; you can't be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.

— Anonymous

Women can also be creative in total isolation. I know excellent women artists who do original work without any response to speak…

— Elaine de Kooning

Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.

— Hannah Arendt

“The panic was there, staring me down in the face, all the time, like I had a hoodie on backwards and I…

— Anne Clendening

“Defense mechanisms protect us. Fortresses isolate us. And far too often we begin with the former and end up constructing the latter.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

To dream in isolation can be properly splendid to be sure; but to dream in company seems to me infinitely preferable.

— Clive Barker

Aloneness is obviously not isolation, and it is not uniqueness. To be unique is merely to be exceptional in some way, whereas…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

When the crying child is immediately isolated, and it is explained to him at the same time that whoever annoys others must…

— Ellen Key

I feel closer to my country than ever. There is no longer a feeling of lonesome isolation. Instead-peace. I return without fearing…

— Paul Robeson

I'm so glad my window looks east into the sunrising- It's so splendid to see the morning coming up over those long…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

The nuclear peril is usually seen in isolation from the threats to other forms of life and their ecosystems, but in fact…

— Jonathan Schell

The challenge of modern freedom, or the combination of isolation and freedom which confronts you, is to make yourself up. The danger…

— Saul Bellow

The age of isolation is gone. And gone are the days in which barbed wire served as demarcation lines, separating and isolating…

— Gamal Abdel Nasser

“One’s efforts to escape isolation can sabotage one’s relationships with other people. Many a friendship or marriage has failed because, instead of…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“We all grew up, those of us who took On the Road to heart. We came to cringe a little at our…

— Sarah Vowell

“It's all very well for me to tell myself there are no provincial cities any more and perhaps there never were any:…

— Anonymous

“Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the reliable silence of her rooms, the steadfast tranquility of the evenings. The promise that…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“solitude is, more or less, an inevitable circumstance. Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can…

— Haruki Murakami

“There are obvious psychological stresses on a person in a group, but there may be even greater stresses on a person in…

— Jonathan Franzen

“This is one of the harshest after effects of the pandemic that I am witnessing some and experiencing some, a diminished ability…

— Shellen Lubin

Contact with like-minded painters - a group means a great deal to me: nothing comes in isolation. We have worked out our…

— Gerhard Richter

I began to wonder whether anything truly existed, whether reality wasn't an unformed and gelatinous substance only half-captured by my senses…If that…

— Isabel Allende