When I tried to imagine being beautiful, I could only imagine living without the perpetual fear of being alone, without the great… — Lucy Grealy Copy Share Image
I think there is loneliness everywhere, and there is isolation and there is nostalgic, homesick, longing everywhere you go. — Noah Kahan Copy Share Image
The goal is not to improve one measurement in isolation. The goal is to reduce operational expenses AND reduce inventories and increase… — Eliyahu M. Goldratt Copy Share Image
“But that’s the danger of isolation; it lures you in with the deceptive promise of protecting you and then it feasts on… — Leigh Byrne Copy Share Image
Every morning brings new potential, but if you dwell on the misfortunes of the day before, you tend to overlook tremendous opportunities. — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
It's clear to me that anyone, anywhere, can experience loneliness, isolation, solitude, and estrangement; and most people probably do encounter these things… — Brendan Myers Copy Share Image
What was Dionysus going to go? Send him back to his hellish isolation? He’d been there, done that, and had the Ozzy… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“I walked along singing, for when I am happy I am always humming to myself like every man who has no friend… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Mourning. At the death of the loved being, acute phase of narcissism: one emerges from sickness, from servitude. Then, gradually, freedom takes… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
For years mental health professionals taught people that they could be psychologically healthy without social support, that “unless you love yourself, no… — Bruce D. Perry 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
I've been a writer and a parent since adolescence, it feels like, and I'm still making both gigs up as I go… — Tim Winton 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
“As a teenager and young adult, I found being mute intensely isolating and dehumanizing. I felt truly like I was just a… — Carl Sutton Copy Share Image
The one thing I have never been comfortable with in the modern presentation of character - and it may have changed, this… — Chris Claremont Copy Share Image
Business gives you a massive high. Doing a great deal, coming up with an inspirational solution... It's very addictive. But it doesn't… — John Caudwell Copy Share Image
“Isolating oneself into a narrowly defined victim group promotes a view of others as irrelevant at best and dangerous at worst, which… — Bessel A. van der Kolk Copy Share Image
“There was no singles problem until singles got so single-minded that they stopped wasting time with anyone ineligible. Before that, it was… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
“By the time she made it up the stairs to her own front door, Helen knew several things she hadn’t known half… — Lynda Cohen Loigman Copy Share Image
“This gives a whole new meaning to ‘family mobbing.’ According to author and survivor, Stephanie A. Sellers, Ph.D, who wrote the book,… — Dana Arcuri CTRC Copy Share Image
The people of the United States have been fortunate in many things. One of the things in which we have been most… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
“You want to know what I really learned? I learned that people don’t consider time alone as part of their life. Being… — Chuck Klosterman 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
The Gnostics believed that exile was the essential condition of man. Do you agree? I do. The artist and the addict both… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built… — Bruce D. Perry Copy Share Image
When our focus is toward a principle of relatedness and oneness, and away from fragmentation and isolation, health ensues — Larry Dossey Copy Share Image
“Thus the tower was both disease and cure. It rendered him unfit for the world and it remedied the hurts inflicted by… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
I am interested in the loneliness and isolation that we can feel when we hide feelings we are ashamed of, especially if… — Torill Kove Copy Share Image
One of the booby traps of freedom - which is bordered on all sides by isolation - is that we think so… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“thought for the day.. we are only as strong and safe as the elements we allow into our inner circle rather than… — levi paul taylor Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is not only positively characterized by a certain degree of isolation, but is negatively characterized by a deficiency of participation.” — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
I think, if you have enough inner resources, then you can live in isolation for long periods of time and not feel… — Aung San Suu Kyi 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
“Can the potential isolation of living on an island of our own frame of reference be banished by simple concurrences that become… — Nora Bateson Copy Share Image
Thanks to the greatly improved possibility of communication, we overrate its importance. Even stronger, we underrate the importance of isolation. — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
My pictures must first be beautiful, but that beauty is not enough. I strive to convey an underlying edge of anxiety, of… — Gregory Crewdson 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
Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent." Bill Clinton "The price… — Steve Schmidt Copy Share Image
“Our quality of life will be seriously impaired if we are withdrawn into isolation and lack moments of hope in our daily… — Shannon Thomas Copy Share Image
“I left myself out of humanity by focusing on differences. This isolation only strengthened Ed” (17)” — Jenni Schaefer Copy Share Image
