“Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“When I was going on one day in the car about not having any close friends - using my favourite metaphor: the… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“There’s something about taking the cart back instead of leaving it in the parking lot…It’s significant…Because somebody has to take them in…And… — Andre Dubus 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
The world says: "You have needs -- satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate… — 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
“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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
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
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
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
You cry and you scream and you stomp your feet and you shout. You say, 'You know what? I'm giving up, I… — Nicole Scherzinger Copy Share Image
The isolation spins its mysterious cocoon, focusing the mind on one place, one time, one rhythm - the turning of the light.… — Anonymous 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
“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
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