Isolated Quotes
478 quotes by 413 authors
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Nothing is an accident: it's always someone's fault; perhaps-but no one teaches us how to live with our mistakes. Everyone is isolated, alone with his…
— Nadeem Aslam
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In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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It's a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to look down upon the…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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It was one of those problematic occasions with long silences, sporadic coughs, and people saying isolated things like, "Well, isn't this nice.
— Terry Pratchett
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He looked at the pain and he set himself apart from it. He saw it, examined it, identified it, corralled it. He isolated it. He…
— Lee Child
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The willingness to reach inside every part of yourself opens the door to total understanding. You place your entire identity on the line, not just…
— Deepak Chopra
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Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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If any man would come after me, let him deny himself." The disciple must say to himself the same words Peter said of Christ when…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all…
— Rollo May
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People aren't just ants rushing around over a crust of bread. Every life, no matter how isolated, touches hundreds of others. It's up to us…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Every life, no matter how isolated, touches hundred of others. It's up to us to decide if those micro connections are positive or negative. But…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness…
— Alan Watts
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He built up a situation that was far enough from the truth. It never occurred to him that Helen was to blame. He forgot the…
— E. M. Forster
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Children learn what they live. Put kids in a class and they will live out their lives in an invisible cage, isolated from their chance…
— John Taylor Gatto
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He was prepared to die for it, as one of Baudelaire's dandies might have been prepared to kill himself in order to preserve himself in…
— Angela Carter
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I have become convinced that the more wealth a country accumulates, the more isolated and lonely its people become. The loneliest are usually the children…
— Wess Stafford
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You can live your whole life in your brain and not experience what's around you. You go crazy that way. That's why I have to…
— Fiona Apple
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Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction…
— Paul Bowles
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I was isolated but not ostracized, ignored but not abused.
— Claire LaZebnik
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I'm not trying to imply I can keep up this silent, isolated facade all the time. Sometimes the wall I've erected around me comes crumbling…
— Haruki Murakami
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