Isolation Quotes

423 quotes by 362 authors

When I tried to imagine being beautiful, I could only imagine living without the perpetual fear of being alone, without the great burden of isolation,… — Lucy Grealy
My pictures must first be beautiful, but that beauty is not enough. I strive to convey an underlying edge of anxiety, of isolation, of fear. — Gregory Crewdson
Be careful, you are not in Wonderland. I've heard the strange madness long growing in your soul. But you are fortunate in your ignorance, in… — Allen Ginsberg
Isolation is a big part of songwriting. — Natalie Imbruglia
I'm in an unusual stage right now, because I haven't dated in so long. The sense of isolation turns it all into a bigger deal.… — Andie MacDowell
You leave white people alone in constant isolation for 2,000 years, and you know what their musical contribution will be? Riverdance! — Greg Proops
Beethovenâ€™s music always struck me. Always. He had this fire you know. I remember reading this story of him going deaf and pushing himself into… — Rodney Mullen
I rent houses in LA when I'm filming. I find the isolation there terrifying. There's nowhere to go, there's nowhere to be with people. I'm… — Kathleen Turner
I feel like when we talk about post-apocalyptic themes that's what we're really talking about. We're always returning to this sense of being alone in… — Colin Stetson
Fears don't exist in isolation. They tend to rise and fall depending on what people think they can do about them. — Peter Beinart
It is far easier to be a Christian in isolation than it is to live out oneâ€™s faith in the context of all those other… — Gordon Fee
Man is like an island set in isolation in a fathomless sea enveloped by darkness, saying that the loneliness his self knows is so utterly… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
I could definitely empathize with the character, with the feelings of helplessness - if only the desperation and the feeling of isolation. — Randy Harrison
No design can exist in isolation. It is always related, sometimes in very complex ways, to an entire constellation of influencing situations and attitudes. What… — George Nelson
It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even understand, which drug… — Aimee Mann
While strength is the natural quality of an individual seen in isolation, power springs up between men when they act together and vanishes the moment… — Hannah Arendt
This is a fact: Strength in the pursuit of peace is no vice; isolation in the pursuit of security is no virtue. — George H. W. Bush
If there is anything good about exile, it is that it teaches one humility. It accelerates oneâ€™s drift into isolation, an absolute perspective. Into the… — Joseph Brodsky
I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of… — N. Scott Momaday
Regarded in isolation, an idea may be quite insignificant, and venturesome in the extreme, but it may acquire importance from an idea which follows it;… — Friedrich Schiller

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