“It’s important, Madeleine, not to cut people out of our lives. Isolation doesn’t make us better at our job. It makes us… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
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
“Nothing exists in isolation. In fact, all beings and phenomena exist only because of their relationship with other beings or phenomena.” — Jeff Ourvan 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
I am succeeding quite well in my work and the future looks well. What special mission is God preparing me for? Cutting… — Ellen Swallow Richards Copy Share Image
I guess I'm attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And it's why I tend to write about older characters, too,… — Conor McPherson Copy Share Image
The differences you perceive between Humans-between groups of Humans-are the result of isolation and inbreeding, mutation, and adaptation to different Earth environments — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Today, one must either be isolated and cut off, or a carefully guarded, affluent drop-out, to allow one's children to play in… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
“Isolation leads to psychopathology. Isolated from the rest of nature, isolated from each other by walls of fear, isolated from our own… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage. An unsegregated America might see poverty,… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Be careful, you are not in Wonderland. I've heard the strange madness long growing in your soul. But you are fortunate in… — Anonymous 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
The challenge of modern freedom, or the combination of isolation and freedom which confronts you, is to make yourself up. The danger… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The nuclear peril is usually seen in isolation from the threats to other forms of life and their ecosystems, but in fact… — Jonathan Schell Copy Share Image
An honorable human relationship- that is, one in which two people have the right to use the word "love"- is a process,… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Fashion is primitive in its insistence on exhibitionism, which withers in isolation. The catwalk fashion show with its incandescent hype is its… — Stephen Bayley Copy Share Image
Do we get what we want? Yes, we get what we want. God is that loving. If we want isolation, despair, and… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
“May 20 Coming Out Of Isolation "We find ourselves doing and enjoying things that we never thought we would be doing." Basic… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Do you know that, maybe, I shall leave off grieving over the crime and sin of my life? for such a life… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The only happy talkers are dandies who extract pleasure from the very perishability of their material and who would not be able… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
Why do leaders fail? Isolation and inability to learn. They are afraid to express doubt, admit vulnerability or seek advice from subordinates.… — Robert S. Kaplan Copy Share Image
“I am a stranger in this world, and there is a severe solitude and painful lonesomeness in my exile.” — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
Seafaring can be lucrative - the elite, such as gas-tanker captains, can earn $100,000 for six months' work - but the isolation… — Rose George Copy Share Image
When you lose work, the meaning and purpose of life are taken away from you, and isolation can set in. — Chuka Umunna Copy Share Image
“…Lived in curious but not unhappy isolation…subscribing to magazines nobody around them read, listening to programs on the national radio network which… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Some books are serials, not to be mistaken for anything else. 'The Two Towers,' for example, ought never to be read in… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
“Isolation is the cruelest of punishments, and it had never occurred to me that I was something less than human because I… — Patricia Cornwell Copy Share Image
An economy can survive with 10% of the population insolation. It can't survive when 50% of the population is in isolation. — Paul Romer Copy Share Image
“The course of urban development in America is pushing the individual toward that line seperating proud independence from pitiable isolation.” — Ray Oldenburg 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
My go-to protective thing is isolation. It's turn off the phone, don't speak to anyone, lie in bed all day, and then… — Adwoa Aboah Copy Share Image
For listening to the stories of others ... is a kind of water that breaks the fever of our isolation. If we… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The isolation must be their desire; I couldn't imagine any door that wouldn't be opened by that degree of beauty.” — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
It's easy to draw up isolation basketball - it's not easy to draw up great motion offense with passing and cutting. — Kyle Korver Copy Share Image
“Without willing it, I had gone from being ignorant of being ignorant to being aware of being unaware. And the worst part… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
