It's like being a newborn, this sudden sensory overload of noise, color, smells and gravity after months of quietly floating, encased in… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
I don't like to read contemporary fiction while writing - I need a sense of isolation, a kind of silence, and I… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
People knew less of each other, perhaps, but they felt more free of each other, and so were more individual. The entire… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Unprecedented financial pressures, and an ever-increasingly aggressive public culture, along with social, moral and spiritual fragmentation, are leading to lives being overwhelmed… — Sean Brady Copy Share Image
Work cure is the best of all psychotherapy, in my opinion… As well might we expect a patient to recover without food… — Richard Clarke Cabot Copy Share Image
I used to live in a little city by the sea, and the feeling of isolation - it was not like living… — Lucile Hadzihalilovic Copy Share Image
Losing friends and spouses is an inevitable part of aging, and many people have a tendency to go quietly into semi-isolation. Instead,… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
This, for instance, is what Egon Bahr said on June 26, 1990: "If we do not now undertake clear steps to prevent… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
“How young I seem; I am exceptional; I think of all I have. But really no one is exceptional, No one has… — Randall Jarell Copy Share Image
“Tada mi je padala na um čudna, obeshrabrujuća misao da je u teškom položaju čovjek koji je duhovno razvijeniji od drugih, ukoliko… — Meša Selimović Copy Share Image
I have a great deal of joy in my life, and I'm very fortunate. That combination makes you aware of just how… — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
Israel is following policies which maximise its security threats... policies which choose expansion over security... policies which lead to their moral degradation,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you were a nerd computer geek in 1982, the amount of isolation you felt - at least what I experienced, or… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
Smooth functioning of social life has always depended on the recognition of certain basic limits to behavior. We cannot simply say or… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
No matter what you are dealing with in life, be it resentment or regret, bitterness or sadness, anger or apathy, hatred or… — Widad Akrawi Copy Share Image
There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose, without passion, occupation, amusement, or application. Then it is… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
My own life was filled with so much love and joy that when depression struck, it was like a prison door slamming… — Susan Polis Schutz Copy Share Image
“Scarlet shut the door behind her, leaning against it as she responded. "I came because you have been in great pain." "Yes.… — Chelsea Fine Copy Share Image
“Sociologist James House of the University of Michigan declares that emotional isolation is a more dangerous health risk than smoking or high… — Sue Johnson Copy Share Image
The mere suggestion that not speaking for a day can give you an appreciation of the social isolation that comes with the… — Stella Young Copy Share Image
The soul that has been enriched by communion with God will not be dismayed by isolation but will welcome solitude. He will… — Frances J Roberts Copy Share Image
“I fall in love with Paraíso. It’s like a giant playground where I’m never scolded for running around recklessly, where I’m almost… — Raquel Cepeda Copy Share Image
It was a magic caused by the collision of modern methods and old ones; modern history and ancient; accessibility and isolation. And… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
And with each day that passed, the gulf broadened and my isolation became more accentuated. In such a situation, the discovery that… — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
My books are always about somebody who is taken from aloneness and isolation - often elevated loneliness - to community. It may… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Graff had isolated Ender to make him struggle. To make him prove, not that he was competent, but that he was far… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The statement that although the past can be recorded, the future cannot, is translatable into the statistical statement: Isolated states of order… — Hans Reichenbach Copy Share Image
“Our obsession with each other was like the isolation that comes with great pain; it was like extreme sadness. Without our children… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
Faith by its very nature must be tried, and the real trial of faith is not that we find it difficult to… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Music does not exist in isolation, it is rooted in the political, the social, the cultural. We need to remember this at… — Lawrence English Copy Share Image
The way I felt growing up, which was like an outcast - I was weird, I was a nerd, I read fantasy… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
Technology can help us connect to people and viewpoints we'd never otherwise experience: using it as a way of avoiding awkward but… — Dawn Foster Copy Share Image
I said it's a cold universe and I don't mean that metaphorically. If you go out into space, it's cold. It's really… — David Chase Copy Share Image
In April 1917 the illusion of isolation was destroyed, America came to the end of innocence, and of the exuberant freedom of… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
Mostly, isolation allows me to go through a period where I really concentrate and get in a flow. Sometimes the whole process… — John Britt Daniel Copy Share Image
The idea of the mystic solo, meditating away on his own, is only one path of yoga. Very early on, I chose… — Donovan Copy Share Image
“And even the isolation was beginning to seem kind of cool—the shadow our car made was the only thing on the road.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We owe the origin and development of human society and, consequently, of culture and civilization, to the fact that work performed under… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image