Isolation Quotes

423 quotes by 362 authors

Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched… — Kofi Annan
I began to wonder whether anything truly existed, whether reality wasn't an unformed and gelatinous substance only half-captured by my senses....If that were true, each… — Isabel Allende
The challenge of modern freedom, or the combination of isolation and freedom which confronts you, is to make yourself up. The danger is that you… — Saul Bellow
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. — Anne Lamott
Who shall blame him? Who will not secretly rejoice when the hero puts his armour off, and halts by the window and gazes at his… — Virginia Woolf
Fear and Bigotry are bred fom isolation and ignorance. -Shekinah — P. C. Cast
Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
She would only point out the salvation that was latent in his own soul, and in the soul of every man. Only connect! That was… — E. M. Forster
In certain areas of my life, I actively seek out solitude. Especially for someone in my line of work, solitude is, more or less, an… — Haruki Murakami
What a person is for himself, what abides with him in his loneliness and isolation, and what no one can give or take away from… — Arthur Schopenhauer
After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and… — Carson McCullers
Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he'd always identified with poets. — Nicholas Sparks
He stretched out his hands as he sang, sadly, because all beauty is sadâ€¦The poem had done no â€˜goodâ€™ to anyone, but it was a… — E. M. Forster
She had always been a readerâ€¦ but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job, sheâ€™d been caught… — Louise Erdrich
She met the magus's stunned look with a smile. "The Thieves of Eddis have always been uncomfortable allies to the throne, Magus. There is the… — Megan Whalen Turner
Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act. — Hannah Arendt
What was Dionysus going to go? Send him back to his hellish isolation? Heâ€™d been there, done that, and had the Ozzy T-shirt to prove… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Poems On Life: Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it. Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living… — Rabindranath Tagore
And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And I ask myself… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself. — Henry David Thoreau

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