Over time as most people fail the survivor's exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw from relationships. The isolation of the… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
You know, that single girl life and that sense of isolation - that doesn't leave you just like that. And that's what… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
we love as soon as we learn to distinguish a separate 'you' and 'me.' Love is our attempt to assuage the terror… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is… — Charles Horton Cooley 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
“From his earliest years Cincinnatus, by some strange and happy chance comprehending his danger, carefully managed to conceal a certain peculiarity. He… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The perpetuation of family and cultural pressures to conform to prescribed masculine behaviors is what creates social isolation and distress in many… — Karamo Brown Copy Share Image
For anyone with the traits - of feeling himself victimized, of seeking to be the strongman who resolves everything, yet sees truth… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate… — Adrienne Rich 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
“How often did he feel it now, this gorgeous, furtive seclusion? In the bath sometimes, maybe. Though Jean failed to understand his… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
If we wish to stop the atrocities, we need merely to step away from the isolation. There is a whole world waiting… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
“I may have smiled to myself as I watched the familiar pattern of the town pass, the bus cruising through shade to… — Emma Cline Copy Share Image
There's a real purity in New Zealand that doesn't exist in the states. It's actually not an easy thing to find in… — Elijah Wood Copy Share Image
“I look around at everybody laughing and joking together and struggle to understand my life has become a living hell that nobody… — B.A. Paris Copy Share Image
When Christians are caught in sin, they do not need isolation or amputation; they need restoration. The proper thing to do is… — Philip Graham Ryken Copy Share Image
The character structure of modern man, who reproduces a six-thousand-year-old patriarchal authoritarian culture is typified by characterological armoring against his inner nature… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
I wish more of us could understand that our increasing isolation, no matter how much it seems to express pride and self-affirmation,… — Arthur Ashe 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
“There is a terrible beauty to isolation. You don’t have to accept responsibility for others, or live up to their expectations. You… — Celia Stander Copy Share Image
I like the idea of isolation. I like the reality of it. You realize what you are... not that the knowledge is… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
