Isolation Quotes

423 quotes by 362 authors

Iâ€™ve told you the four thunderstorms â€“ disappointment, frustration, unfairness and isolation. You cannot avoid them, as like the monsoon they will come into your… — Chetan Bhagat
Mirabelle replaces the absent friends with books and television mysteries of the PBS kind. The books are mostly nineteenth-century novels in which women are poisoned… — Steve Martin
I can't save you like that Ty. What you did to me wasn't this brilliant thing, like you think it was. You took me away… — Lucy Christopher
If you are a writer, or want to be a writer, this is how you spend your days--listening, observing, storing things away, making your isolation… — Anne Lamott
SkyClan's destiny is that we will never live in isolation from other cats. We're not like forest Clans, we can't shut ourselves off entirely from… — Erin Hunter
A person is a person through other persons; you can't be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships. — Desmond Tutu
The world says: "You have needs -- satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Many animals experience pain, anxiety and suffering, physically and psychologically, when they are held in captivity or subjected to starvation, social isolation, physical restraint, or… — Marc Bekoff
Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists. — Carlos Fuentes
Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look… — Arthur Conan Doyle
The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could… — Sam Harris
There were a thousand secrets in her eyes, a thousand wounds. A lifetime of distrust and betrayal. Isolation. How did one overcome such things? — Christine Feehan
Over time as most people fail the survivor's exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw from relationships. The isolation of the survivor thus persists… — Judith Lewis Herman
To dream in isolation can be properly splendid to be sure; but to dream in company seems to me infinitely preferable. — Clive Barker
There's only two ways to be completely alone in this world, lost in a crowd or in total isolation... — Jeff Lemire
Survivors do not mourn together. They each mourn alone, even when in the same place. Grief is the most solitary of all feelings. Grief isolates,… — Steven Erikson
Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a personâ€™s heart and dissolve it. — Haruki Murakami
That's the day's business. Thinking. Thinking and isolation, because it doesn't matter if you pass the time of day with someone or not; in the… — Stephen King
Had it taken her this long to discover that she lacked some simple mental trick that everyone else had, a mechanism so ordinary that no… — Ian Mcewan
...hideous psychic fallout they'd all endured both in active marijuana-dependency and then in marijuana-detox: the social isolation, anxious lassitude, and the hyperself-consciousness that then reinforced… — David Foster Wallace

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