“I am a stranger in this world, and there is a severe solitude and painful lonesomeness in my exile.” — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness. — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Isolation, you know, carries the seeds of its own destruction because as times change, other things seep in. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“If the only point of jail is isolation, then I have served a full sentence.” — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
Greater technological connectivity makes the world wider, and the walls of isolation - thinner. — Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj Copy Share Image
Fixing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in isolation, without looking at the big picture, would be short-sighted. — Bethany McLean Copy Share Image
“Separation from people hadn't cured her need to please. She longed to lift the hem of isolation, look into eyes full of… — Pam Godwin Copy Share Image
“Deep down in our bones we must know - we must know that nothing we do is done in isolation. Cause and… — Anna Krien Copy Share Image
Basketball teams, after the perfunctory lay-up drill, fall into the crowded isolation and personal style of 10 city kids shooting at the… — Ted Solotaroff Copy Share Image
“If we don’t express truth and love in relationships, they simply become a state of isolation with somebody (some body) still around.” — Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D Copy Share Image
I rent houses in LA when I'm filming. I find the isolation there terrifying. There's nowhere to go, there's nowhere to be… — Kathleen Turner Copy Share Image
I think any show has the potential to bring about social change. I do not think any one show in isolation can… — Trevor Noah 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
Quarantine has really affected me in terms of thinking about what the rest of the world is going through and what isolation… — Aidan Gallagher Copy Share Image
My Dad used to say that the balance of the world relied on all of the monks who were living outside of… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
Survivors do not mourn together. They each mourn alone, even when in the same place. Grief is the most solitary of all… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
“I close my eyes and try and shut him out. My fingers don’t want to stay in time. They want to race… — Tabitha Suzuma Copy Share Image
Josh Smith, put in the right spots, is an outstanding player. You put Josh down on the right block, in the low… — Stan Van Gundy Copy Share Image
“Your vulnerable partner may frequently put himself down and sometimes respond to positive feedback, but, in general, he is chronically self-critical and… — Ramani Durvasula Copy Share Image
“In hermetic isolation, all kinds of bizarre and toxic ideas can fester. Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and exposing a bad idea… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
In certain areas of my life, I actively seek out solitude. Especially for someone in my line of work, solitude is, more… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There are moments in 'Body Snatchers' that touch the sort of thing that I find scary... like isolation and the inability to… — Christine Elise Copy Share Image
They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“One thing's for sure, everyone has something. Not everyone has a giant scar or a missing limb to show for it, but… — Anne Clendening Copy Share Image
“Existential isolation, a third given, refers to the unbridgeable gap between self and others, a gap that exists even in the presence… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“It's all very well for me to tell myself there are no provincial cities any more and perhaps there never were any:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our "society" is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units. Desperately insecure, fearing his woman will leave him… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Since taking office, I've made it clear that the United States was prepared to begin a new chapter of engagement with the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“The Trenches of Comprehension by Stewart Stafford Drowning at quicksand's smothering pace, A lonely disappearance that leaves no trace. As I struggle… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Moral progress is a process of isolation; the mountain tops are lonely. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Isolation is a blind alley…Nothing on the planet grows except by convergence. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I left myself out of humanity by focusing on differences. This isolation only strengthened Ed” (17)” — Jenni Schaefer Copy Share Image
“[…] he is the artist of his own life, and created it for himself every hours to suit his latest whim.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image