“We were the only humans - the only forms of life, in fact - for hundreds of miles in each direction, unreaching… — Heather James Copy Share Image
The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I wish there was more for minorities than sitcoms. I'd like to see a soap opera about blacks. People don't live in… — Roxie Roker Copy Share Image
“And my inability to share this anger with anybody in the lobby aroused in me a profound sense of isolation." - Toru… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“How did men make themselves loved, I wondered. I had passed all my life with men who were loved but I seemed… — Maria McCann Copy Share Image
In isolation I ruthlessly plow the deep silences, seeking my opportunities like a miner seeking veins of treasures. In what shallow glimmering… — Jamaica Kincaid 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
Aloneness is obviously not isolation, and it is not uniqueness. To be unique is merely to be exceptional in some way, whereas… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I feel closer to my country than ever. There is no longer a feeling of lonesome isolation. Instead-peace. I return without fearing… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
When the crying child is immediately isolated, and it is explained to him at the same time that whoever annoys others must… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
I'm so glad my window looks east into the sunrising- It's so splendid to see the morning coming up over those long… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Too long have I confined myself in Miltonic isolation and meditation. It is clearly time for me to step boldly into our… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
Beethoven’s music always struck me. Always. He had this fire you know. I remember reading this story of him going deaf and… — Rodney Mullen Copy Share Image
Delirious as it can be, sex is only one kind of intimacy, and yet has become the cultural catchment area for all… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
True drama can be conceived only as resulting from the collective impulse of all the arts to communicate in the most immediate… — Richard Wagner 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
“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 most important issues to address are the truly existential threats we face: climate change and nuclear war. On the former, the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Few of us have a healthy sense of boundaries. We either have rigid boundaries (“No one is ever going to get close… — Laura Davis Copy Share Image
Right now we have millions of people in our country who are suffering in isolation, thinking that they are the only ones… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
“Yet this distance, all those abysses unbridged and then unbridgeable by radio, television, cheap travel and the rest, was not wholly bad.… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at… — William Bernbach 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
The Church is not a monastery for the isolation of perfect people. It is more like a hospital provided for those who… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
China on the world stage, in terms of interaction with the rest of the world, has been relatively very new due to… — Stephen A. Schwarzman Copy Share Image
“This was the difference, she thought, between solitude and isolation. And now she knew something about herself she hadn’t known before. It… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
Being the “best you can be” is really only possible when you are deeply connected to another. Splendid isolation is for planets,… — Sue Johnson 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
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
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