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
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“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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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“ ‘She’s an era for you, an era of your life. If and when you break with her, you break with the only… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Border strengthening is effective, but not if done in isolation. We also need to give priority to establishing public institutions that deliver… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
I wasn't afraid of treating Ebola patients in the isolation unit. That was the safest job. But seeing patients in the clinic,… — Kent Brantly Copy Share Image
“Stigma's power lies in silence. The silence that persists when discussion and action should be taking place. The silence one imposes on… — M.B. Dallocchio Copy Share Image
Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
This neglect of a very important Brazilian writer is, in my view, the result of Brazil's relative isolation from what metropolitan tastemakers.… — Adam Morris Copy Share Image
“What was it - this implacable remoteness, this inability to surrender herself to the warmth and comradely feelings of others? Could being… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
I was also thinking about isolation on an evolutionary scale as well, like when you think of an island like Madagascar where… — Colin Stetson 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
Isolation is a sickness unspoken..it is impossible to be all we can in it..it is dangerous but when there is no ligh… — Abigail Vanhoff 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
Psychotherapy is a cyclical process from isolation into relationship. It is cyclical because the patient, in terror of existential isolation, relates deeply… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, we are not painters and authors, where we can do something in isolation. We require a lot of money to create… — Jon Favreau Copy Share Image
The artist is a strange being. I think it's safe to say that a real artist is conscious of having a personal… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
My starting point is that I've been a minority in this country for my whole life. I have understood that you have… — Humza Yousaf Copy Share Image
In worship we have our neighbors to right and left, before and behind, yet the Eternal Presence is over all and beneath… — Thomas Raymond Kelly Copy Share Image
What a person is for himself, what abides with him in his loneliness and isolation, and what no one can give or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
This is the part of us that makes our brief, improbable little lives worth living: the ability to reach through our own… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
“There is a tendency to imagine the loner ensconced in a dark corner, but in point of fact, as the resident loner… — Wataru Watari Copy Share Image
Authentic thinking, thinking that is concerned about reality, does not take place in ivory tower isolation, but only in communication. If it… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
It's so difficult to figure out how to offer support and also be honest with someone you love who's in a damaging… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
I’ve told you the four thunderstorms – disappointment, frustration, unfairness and isolation. You cannot avoid them, as like the monsoon they will… — Chetan Bhagat Copy Share Image
The Obama administration has been trying out a new policy toward Syria since the day it came to office. The Bush cold… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
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