Isolation Quotes

423 quotes by 360 authors

As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you. — Ann Brashares
I have never belonged wholeheartedly to country or State, to my circle of friends or even to my own family... Such isolation is sometimes bitter,… — Albert Einstein
Remember you don't do anything in isolation. — Abdallah II
As much as we sometimes roll our eyes at the ivory-tower isolation of universities, they continue to serve as remarkable engines of innovation. — Steven Johnson
A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not about political prestige or military power.… — Ben Bova
We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation. — Robert Zemeckis
Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance. — Jules Verne
Isolation from power makes men look for a mob in which they can be strong. — Herbert Gold
Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of… — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Though we are all human beings, we have built walls between ourselves and our neighbors through nationalism, through race, caste, and class - which again… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Aloneness is obviously not isolation, and it is not uniqueness. To be unique is merely to be exceptional in some way, whereas to be completely… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
And yet, these insights of connectedness and oneness, which make us feel so at home in the world, are so difficult to hold onto. And… — Irwin Kula
Fashion is primitive in its insistence on exhibitionism, which withers in isolation. The catwalk fashion show with its incandescent hype is its apotheosis. A ritualized… — Stephen Bayley
Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with others, are refuges… — Erich Fromm
The wonder of an artist's performance grows with the range of his penetration, with the instinctive sympathy that makes him, in his mortal isolation, considerate… — George Santayana
One of the booby traps of freedom - which is bordered on all sides by isolation - is that we think so well of ourselves.… — Saul Bellow
The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self- dependence must give each individual the right to choose his own surroundings. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I think I'm Swedish because I like to live here on this island. You can't imagine the loneliness and isolation in this country. In that… — Ingmar Bergman
Other people may complicate our lives, but life without them would be unbearably desolate. None of us can be truly human in isolation. The qualities… — Harold S. Kushner
I voted 'yes' and I urge all Iraqis, no matter their different ethnicities and religions ... to vote 'yes' to the constitution — Jalal Talabani

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