“Our quality of life will be seriously impaired if we are withdrawn into isolation and lack moments of hope in our daily… — Shannon Thomas Copy Share Image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 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
As much as we sometimes roll our eyes at the ivory-tower isolation of universities, they continue to serve as remarkable engines of… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
“I left myself out of humanity by focusing on differences. This isolation only strengthened Ed” (17)” — Jenni Schaefer Copy Share Image
Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The great waste comes from [the child's] inability to utilize the experience he gets outside of school in any complete and free… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“We are relational creatures. All humans live in community and most people seek social interaction. In western culture, isolation is seen as… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
Up there, up there in the vastness of space, in the void that is sky, up there is an enemy known as… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
“Satan loves isolation. He wants to draw the believer out of healthy relationships into isolated relationships and out of healthy practices into… — Beth Moore 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
The cave is a dark, shadowy place. It's a place that's very close and yet distant at the same time, and it's… — Gerald Stern Copy Share Image
“We have to live without sympathy, don't we? That's impossible of course. We act it to one another, all this hardness; but… — John le Carré Copy Share Image
When I wrote my novel, 'The Ministry of Special Cases,' I couldn't even brush my teeth. I had to write in isolation… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
People say to us how brave we are, fighting the wilderness, braving the isolation of the Outback. But these are easy opponents,… — Sara Henderson Copy Share Image
“...they lived in a curious but not unhappy isolation, though her father was a popular schoolteacher. Partly they were cut off by… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
The painting showed a hairless, oppressed creature with a head like an inverted pear, its hands clapped in horror to its ears,… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“As I stand there, staring absently at the stirring pot on the wall, I remember Greg’s words all those years ago: No… — Sasha Martin Copy Share Image
The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit.… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Market moralities and mentalities-- fueled by economic imperatives to make a profit at nearly any cost-- yield unprecedented levels of loneliness, isolation,… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
You cannot judge the performance of an actor in isolation. A performance becomes good because of so many factors, including the other… — Mohanlal Copy Share Image
Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Religions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down. — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
I think many people have wonderful stories inside them and the talent to tell those stories. But the writing life, with its… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
Nothing that you make in the world exists in isolation from the social and political and ecological dimensions of it. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
You can have my isolation, you can have the hate that it brings… You can have my absence of faith, you can… — CTate Copy Share Image
If everything in the universe depends upon everything else in a fundamental way, it might be impossible to get close to a… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to be ridiculous or funny, but it was rather pleasant to find yourself in isolation, in solitary. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
People who live in hermit states like North Korea, Burma, and Cuba already suffer from global isolation. Fed on a diet of… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
“He had been for many years, a quiet silent man, associating but little with other men, and used to companionship with his… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I think the isolation in China also has to do with people's memories being wiped out, collective memories as well as individual… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
“There is something in expressly touching in nature round Petersburg, when at the approach of spring she puts forth all her might,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Through all this ordeal his root horror had been isolation, and there are no words to express the abyss between isolation and… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Vacation time is the best time to do solitude because you could just take two weeks of it or one week of… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
All People and things are interdependent. The world has become so small that no nation can solve its problems alone, in isolation… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“There is something inn expressly touching in nature round Petersburg, when at the approach of spring she puts forth all her might,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
And yet, these insights of connectedness and oneness, which make us feel so at home in the world, are so difficult to… — Irwin Kula Copy Share Image