“Once aware of my isolation, I was afraid not of it but of its interruption.” — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
“Without touch, what kind of culture do we create? One where isolation and disconnection reign.” — Ken Breniman Copy Share Image
The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition. — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
I spent 11 years in isolation units, solitary confinement... in the hardest places for women. — Susan Rosenberg Copy Share Image
We are awakening from the dream of isolation, from the dream of loneliness, and it's a terrible shock. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is not a result of physical isolation; you're only lonely the day you realize that nobody shares your opinions.” — Sabah Carrim Copy Share Image
The isolation of Eastern Europe actually helped me to be so original. I couldn't travel so much, I had to find my… — Krzysztof Penderecki Copy Share Image
By circumstance and perhaps also by inclination, I think in complete intellectual isolation. To expect others to help me think seems to… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
An individual poor person is an isolated island by himself and herself. IT can end that isolation overnight. — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Rationality and logic can find no truth to sustaining life in this desolate sense of being. The need to belong, but the… — Trent Thomas Copy Share Image
“At the exact time that our society embraces shaming, blaming, judgment, and rejection, it also holds acceptance and belonging as immensely important.… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
The wilderness is a place of rest - not in the sense of being motionless, for the lure, after all, is to… — David Douglas Copy Share Image
But if you'd only ever lived in small wooden house in the middle of wilderness, it sounded much better. Especially because it… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
“I know you don't think that any tongue I speak is mine; it must be rented. I am always denial, or pretense.… — Jasmine Ann Cooray Copy Share Image
The more we study the major problems of our time, the more we come to realise that they cannot be understood in… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
I just am trans. That's just the way it is. I knew this as a child. But I was told that because… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
I have become convinced that the more wealth a country accumulates, the more isolated and lonely its people become. The loneliest are… — Wess Stafford Copy Share Image
“Let's just give her a ride into town," Suzanne said. She spoke briskly, like I was a mess that needed to be… — Emma Cline Copy Share Image
“Also, isolation leads to chronically lowered levels of the feel-good neurotransmitter serotonin. It is one of the bizarre ironies of major depression… — James Lee Copy Share Image
Instead of looking at books and pictures about the New Testament I looked at the New Testament. There I found an account,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Instead of answering her as soon as he saw her hair grow electric, her face more vivid, her eyes like lightning, her… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“Really there are very few adults these days who possess the mental and emotional self-sufficiency necessary for leading satisfactory existence in these… — Rowena Farre Copy Share Image
The problem is not that religious people are stupid. It's not that religious fundamentalists are stupid. I happen to think that you… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Individuals of the earlier species had suffered from an almost insurmountable spiritual isolation from one another. Not even lovers, and scarcely even… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
Mirabelle replaces the absent friends with books and television mysteries of the PBS kind. The books are mostly nineteenth-century novels in which… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
It's shocking that so many children still live in fear as a result of violence in the home, and don't know who… — Gordon Ramsay Copy Share Image
“A large part of evolution is interaction. Isolation is not evolution; it is stagnation.” — Peter F. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Isolation is an unspoken sickness...Don't go solo when you're down and So-Low... — Tyrese Gibson Copy Share Image
Greater technological connectivity makes the world wider, and the walls of isolation - thinner. — Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj Copy Share Image
The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated. — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
