Isolated Quotes

478 quotes by 413 authors

There's another disadvantage to the use of the flashlight: like many other mechanical gadgets it tends to separate a man from the world around him.… — Edward Abbey
Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear, the fear of… — Bertrand Russell
A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation… — Jorge Luis Borges
But we are alone, darling child, terribly, isolated each from the other; so fierce is the world's ridicule we cannot speak or show our tenderness;… — Truman Capote
No individual is isolated. He who is sad, saddens others. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
We have to abandon the conceit that isolated personal actions are going to solve this crisis. Our policies have to shift. — Al Gore
We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to the point where… — Madeleine L'Engle
Quantum theory thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. It shows that we cannot decompose the world into independently existing smallest units. As we… — Fritjof Capra
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
One of the liberating effects of science fiction when I was a teenager was precisely its ability to tune me into all sorts of strange… — William Gibson
Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the same, in their conversation. But inside all… — Alfred de Musset
Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others who are as… — Anne Lamott
The reader must come armed , in a serious state of intellectual readiness. This is not easy because he comes to the text alone. In… — Neil Postman
The more isolated and disconnected we are, the more shattered and distorted our self-identity. We are not healthy when we are alone. We find ourselves… — Erwin McManus
i could have told him to learn from Gatsby. from the lonely, isolated Gatsby, who also tried to retrieve his past and give flash and… — Azar Nafisi
An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and thus guarding against the dogmatisms and extravagances of… — H P Lovecraft
And there was that letter from the Bramleysâ€”that really made me feel good. You donâ€™t find people like the Bramleys now; radio, television and the… — James Herriot
What is meaningful cannot in fact be isolatedâ€¦. We achieve understanding within a circular movement from particular facts to the whole that includes them and… — Karl Jaspers
Isolated, she managed somehow to feel freeâ€”albeit with a freedom that made her want to smash a hole in the very center of the universe. — Flora Rheta Schreiber
Sometimes a thing isâ€”too muchâ€”and it has to be isolated and put away." Martin shrugged. "So what's in the boxes isâ€”emotion. In the form of… — Audrey Niffenegger

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