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
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
“...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
“Much of the study of history is a matter of comparison, of relating what was happening in one area to what was… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“From the late eighteenth century onwards, it is no longer from the practice of community but from being a wanderer that the… — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
“These men, as she often muttered to friend Eleanor Topping, the two of them pressed together like sisters, their friendship filling in… — David Gilbert Copy Share Image
You experience life alone, you can be as intimate with another as much as you like, but there has to be always… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
This is how the world changes - little by little, table by table, meal by meal, hour by hour. This is how… — Shauna Niequist Copy Share Image
Ebola is a humiliating disease that strips you of your dignity. You are removed from family and put into isolation where you… — Kent Brantly Copy Share Image
The character of a whole society is the cumulative result of the countless small actions, day in and day out, of millions… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
“The man who is too isolated grows timid, abstracted, a little odd: He stumbles along amid realities like a sailor who has… — Antonin Sertillanges Copy Share Image
“There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured...the only solution known to science is to… — Robert Heinlein Copy Share Image
There's a real purity in New Zealand that doesn't exist in the states. It's actually not an easy thing to find in… — Elijah Wood Copy Share Image
“Camus had said in his 'Carnets' that the lives of others appear always, from the outside, to have a completion our own… — Gail Jones Copy Share Image
Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
On one level my sense of despair had been dispelled by therapy, yet on another it had not been replaced by either… — Anthony Loyd Copy Share Image
I slightly feel, having written Paraguay and Newfoundland - and both of them have developed eccentricities through isolation - I am quite… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
With a nearly desperate sense of isolation and a growing suspicion that I lived in an alien land, I took to the… — William Least Heat-Moon Copy Share Image
He stretched out his hands as he sang, sadly, because all beauty is sad…The poem had done no ‘good’ to anyone, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She felt a stealing sense of fatigue as she walked; the sparkle had died out of her, and the taste of life… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Had it taken her this long to discover that she lacked some simple mental trick that everyone else had, a mechanism so… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
[Kierkegaard] did not care for large public events because every crowd is in itself an untruth. The only way out is isolation,… — Mati Unt Copy Share Image
“Many Survivors blame themselves for the abuse and continue to feel responsible and guilty for anything bad that happens to them or… — Carolyn Ainscough Copy Share Image
There were times after the accident when I felt very lonely - burns survivors can feel terrible isolation. I wanted to create… — Katie Piper Copy Share Image
“There is a certain depth of illness that is piercing in its isolation: the only rule of existence is uncertainty, and the… — Elisabeth Tova Bailey Copy Share Image
“Robie took a deep, cleansing breath. He had never played well with others. For the last dozen years he had worked in… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal… — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
I noticed that when I was on Prozac my relationship with the landscape improved. I actually stopped thinking about myself for a… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
No one can help us to achieve the intimate isolation by which we find our secret worlds, so mysterious, rich and full.… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“It’s hopeless, trying to recruit a stranger to help me find someone who’s a stranger to him. But then again, we are… — Shannon M Mullen Copy Share Image
We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Loneliness makes us more capable of true intimacy if ever better opportunities do come along. We might be isolated for now, but… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image