“That's what Jamie didn't understand: it was never just sex. Even the fastest, dirtiest, most impersonal screw was about more than sex.… — Emily Maguire Copy Share Image
He stretched out his hands as he sang, sadly, because all beauty is sad…The poem had done no ‘good’ to anyone, but… — Anonymous 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
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
“And there’s one other matter I must raise. The epidemic of domestic sexual violence that lacerates the soul of South Africa is… — Stephen Lewis Copy Share Image
There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Just as humans posses a… — Bill Vaughan 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
Individuals can refuse to use a given technology, but unless they live in total isolation will have to engage with people whose… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
As a group, housewives to-day suffer more from social isolation and loss of purpose than any other social group, except, perhaps, the… — Alva Myrdal Copy Share Image
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I walk out my front door in New York and I'm out on the street and there are people everywhere. L.A. is… — Moby Copy Share Image
A problem never exists in isolation; it is surrounded by other problems in space and time. The more of the context of… — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
It's possible that I would have been better suited to being a penguin keeper. Starting out, I thought being a writer would… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
America has a history of political isolation and economic self-sufficiency; its citizens have tended to regard the rest of the world as… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“He lived a quiet existence where the future was easy to predict and the past was a cancer in remission. It was… — Adelheid Manefeldt Copy Share Image
“The trick is not to be isolated―if you're isolated, like Winston Smith in 1984, then sooner or later you're going to break,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“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
My particular thing is discovering what can be done with media and how it can be used. You can't draw people together… — David Bowie 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
