There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world. — A. R. Ammons Copy Share Image
“And I realise now, more than ever, that I have lost all my best years!” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
Moral progress is a process of isolation; the mountain tops are lonely. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
“I am not an outsider. I am an insider who discovered that everyone else had gone out.” — Stephen J. Day Copy Share Image
“our hearts break, and take us out of relationships that are too painful for us” — john j geddes Copy Share Image
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain. — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
I feel that our attitude to our borders is wrong; it's the first time that an awful lot of people think you… — Jeremy Hardy Copy Share Image
“It talked about the isolation felt by gifted young people whose social skills could not keep up with their intellects and who… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“Solitude is a chosen separation for refining your soul. Isolation is what you crave when you neglect the first.” — Wayne Cordeiro Copy Share Image
“Can it be, then, that by that act of physical isolation, he signifies his spiritual withdrawal for the time, from all outward… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“I will leave and isolate myself rather than go through the futile task of trying to make everyone happy, which is impossible… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
The London music world isn't a particularly cohesive place. And when I'm composing, I'm not very friendly. I need isolation. — George Benjamin Copy Share Image
I think I'm Swedish because I like to live here on this island. You can't imagine the loneliness and isolation in this… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
Whether splendidly isolated or dangerously isolated, I will not now debate; but for my part, I think splendidly isolated, because the isolation… — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share Image
“In an instant, she was free from this small commitment and any kind of freedom feels good. She much preferred that invites… — Ani Baker Copy Share Image
I was not popular in school, and I was definitely not a ladies' man. And I had a very painful adolescence, because… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
“Every falling leaf reminds me that I too will soon be separated from these trees. Trying to capture freedom is like trying… — Daniel J. Rice Copy Share Image
“As a teenager and young adult, I found being mute intensely isolating and dehumanizing. I felt truly like I was just a… — Carl Sutton Copy Share Image
I've been a writer and a parent since adolescence, it feels like, and I'm still making both gigs up as I go… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
“In hermetic isolation, all kinds of bizarre and toxic ideas can fester. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and exposing a bad idea… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
So, you know, when I think of survival as a creative act, it's not trying to plaster over the isolation or to,… — Suleika Jaouad Copy Share Image
“Mourning. At the death of the loved being, acute phase of narcissism: one emerges from sickness, from servitude. Then, gradually, freedom takes… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“It is on the consciousness level of the heart that we begin to understand that we are not separated from life. We… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“We are, on earth, two distinct races. Those who have need of others, whom others amuse, engage soothe, whom solitude harasses, pains,… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
One of the most significant effects of age-segregation in our society has been the isolation of children from the world of work.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some people give theirselves a certain number of white weeks once in a year, when they do not drink a single drop… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
It seems that the ancient Medicine Men understood that listening to another's story somehow gives us the strength of example to carry… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Knowing how easily even the smallest things torture me, I deliberately avoid contact with them. A cloud passing in front of the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“There is strength in isolation, there's strength in being obsessive about something.” — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Nowhere in Scripture do we find doctrine studied for its own sake or in isolation from life. — Wayne Grudem Copy Share Image
Isolation makes me lonesome, but when I'm lonely in a crowd, I feel desolate and forlorn. — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
Growth cant happen in isolation. It can only happen in relation to others. — Swami Premodaya Copy Share Image
