Isolation Quotes

423 quotes by 360 authors

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
Helping reproductive services doesn't just help women in isolation. It helps men just as much. — Tucker Max
Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful. — Milan Kundera
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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