Growing up in the icy isolation of Hibbing, Minn., Dylan, who was still Robert Allen Zimmerman then, found comfort in the country,… — Robert Hilburn Copy Share Image
There's a great deal of scientific evidence that social connectedness is a very strong protector of emotional well-being, and I think there's… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
I don't deliberately look for something dark or bleak or disconnected, in fact that's not something I'm even conscious of in the… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
The outstretched arms of Jesus exclude no one, not the drunk in the doorway, the panhandler on the street, gays and lesbians… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
If there's anything to be said in a broad way about different audiences it's that I live in a major city, and… — Simon Amstell Copy Share Image
“...She looked at the people around her and felt not just that she was surrounded by strangers, but that she herself was… — Daphne Kalotay Copy Share Image
“You used to give yourself over to endless sessions of doubt. You would claim to be an expert on the subject. But… — Édouard Levé Copy Share Image
Sending children away to get control of their anger perpetuates the feeling of 'badness" inside them...Chances are they were already feeling not… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
I'm the only one in my family who is deaf, and there are still conversations that go around me that I miss… — Marlee Matlin Copy Share Image
The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
“A major determining factor by which a superior human can be isolated from his average counterparts is his very isolation—the degree to… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
“They express concern that technology creates social isolation, as people rely on tech-based communication rather than richer face-to-face encounters.9 We find a… — Lee Rainie Copy Share Image
I think that there is a real beauty to the live aspect of the theater, and the working with a director for… — Karen Allen Copy Share Image
Terrified of being alone, yet afraid of intimacy, we experience widespread feelings of emptiness, of disconnection, of the unreality of self. And… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
Finally, ultimately, you write music for yourself. I mean, I need a public, I need people to play, I need everything else.… — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
My books often involve characters who began in some form of mental isolation, with a feeling of having died to the world.… — Kem Nunn Copy Share Image
“How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be… — Kathryn Hurn Copy Share Image
“I have nothing now but praise for my life. I'm not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
“It’s an immense night out there, wheeling and windy. The lights on the street and in the houses against the black wetness,… — Sinclair Ross Copy Share Image
There are so many things that are incompatible with a single life. No one can learn fully in one life the lessons… — J. M. E. McTaggart Copy Share Image
One must have a large dose of humanity, a large dose of a sense of justice and truth in order to avoid… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
Having not really written any generational songs - I think maybe two or three of the songs that I've ever written have… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Jesus went without comfort so that you might have it. He postponed joy so that you might share in it. He willingly… — Joni Eareckson Tada Copy Share Image
Love is an active power in man; a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Part of the power of Emerson's individualism is his insistence, at crucial moments, that individualism does not mean isolation or self-sufficiency. This… — Robert D. Richardson Copy Share Image
I believe that a country, Russia in this case, which can defend the honour and dignity of its citizens, protect their lives,… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Poems On Life: Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it. Let the dead have the immortality of fame,… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Trump might well choose to renege on US obligations (so much for the sanctity of contracts!) and no doubt he would have… — Lawrence Davidson Copy Share Image
In most places and times in human history, babies have had not just one person but lots of people around who were… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
The surprise of animals... in and out, cats and dogs and a milk goat and chickens and guinea hens, all taken for… — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
“In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. That's increasingly the case… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“ 'In our inmost and secret heart, which you ask us to bare to you, we wish to banish them as we… — Katherine Addison Copy Share Image
“One by one they are being picked off around him: in his small circle of colleagues the ratio slowly grows top-heavy, more… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“The costs of keeping secrets include our growing isolation due to fear of detection and the ways we shut down inside to… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
I initially wanted to tell 'Oscillate Wildly' story because it wasn't one I had heard or seen before. The invisibility piece resonated… — Travis Mathews Copy Share Image
We have never seen the isolation of the rich to the degree that we see it now. They're global. They travel all… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“Television is all right, I’ve nothing against it, but I don’t like how it turns you away from the rest of the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Kosykh: What the hell... is there really no one even to talk to? We might as well be living in Australia: no… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Whenever justice is uncertain and police spying and terror are at work, human beings fall into isolation, which, of course, is the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“I have such a fear of finding another like myself, and such a desire to find one! I am so utterly lonely,… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image