Isolation Quotes
423 quotes by 360 authors
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I was not popular in school, and I was definitely not a ladies' man. And I had a very painful adolescence, because it was all…
— Joss Whedon
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Helping reproductive services doesn't just help women in isolation. It helps men just as much.
— Tucker Max
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Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.
— Milan Kundera
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Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to keep up with…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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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
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Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence of an enigmatic…
— Philip Roth
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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth,…
— Anne Lamott
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There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty. Noble…
— Victor Hugo
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Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the only normal writer left on earth -- and it is this that adds to his isolation and…
— Malcolm Lowry
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The painting showed a hairless, oppressed creature with a head like an inverted pear, its hands clapped in horror to its ears, its mouth open…
— Philip K. Dick
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So he was deserted. The whole world was clamouring: Kill yourself, kill yourself, for our sakes. But why should he kill himself for their sakes?…
— Virginia Woolf
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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
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Market moralities and mentalities-- fueled by economic imperatives to make a profit at nearly any cost-- yield unprecedented levels of loneliness, isolation, and sadness. And…
— Cornel West
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We do not need to grieve for the dead. Why should we grieve for them? They are now in a place where there is no…
— John O'Donohue
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He was part of a whole, a people scattered over the earth and yet eternally one and indivisible. Wherever a Jew lived, in whatever safety…
— Pearl S. Buck
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I was keenly conscious of the comrades-in-arms who had fallen with me. A bond surpassing by a hundredfold that which I had known in life…
— Steven Pressfield
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I'm still prone to periods of isolation, still more fearful of the world out there and more averse to pleasure and risk than I'd like…
— Caroline Knapp
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They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the…
— Truman Capote
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I think that poetry is perfect for women raising children, with just bits of time and such need to connect to other women out of…
— Francesca Lia Block
Who Wrote These Isolation Quotes
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