Isolation Quotes

423 quotes by 362 authors

Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent." Bill Clinton "The price for independence is… — Steve Schmidt
[Kierkegaard] did not care for large public events because every crowd is in itself an untruth. The only way out is isolation, aloofness. Only the… — Mati Unt
Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other people. The happiness… — Sigmund Freud
Our equal and opposite needs for solitude and community constitute a great paradox. When it is torn apart, both of these life-giving states of being… — Parker J. Palmer
Solitude vivifies, isolation kills. — Philibert Joseph Roux
I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity — Elfriede Jelinek
In a way, both the U.S. media and those wacky rioters in the Afghan-Pakistani hinterlands are very similar, two highly parochial and monumentally self-absorbed tribes… — Mark Steyn
The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on… — Steven Pressfield
The split in America, rather than simply economic, is between those who embrace reason, who function in the real world of cause and effect, and… — Chris Hedges
Instead of looking at books and pictures about the New Testament I looked at the New Testament. There I found an account, not in the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness. — Glenn Gould
The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that… — Eleanora Duse
The outstretched arms of Jesus exclude no one, not the drunk in the doorway, the panhandler on the street, gays and lesbians in their isolation,… — Brennan Manning
And with each day that passed, the gulf broadened and my isolation became more accentuated. In such a situation, the discovery that my experience was… — Juan Goytisolo
Some people give theirselves a certain number of white weeks once in a year, when they do not drink a single drop of alcohol. It… — Henning Mankell
Authentic thinking, thinking that is concerned about reality, does not take place in ivory tower isolation, but only in communication. If it is true that… — Paulo Freire
Art and architecture -- all the arts -- do not have to exist in isolation, — Donald Judd
In isolation I ruthlessly plow the deep silences, seeking my opportunities like a miner seeking veins of treasures. In what shallow glimmering space shall I… — Jamaica Kincaid
Isolation is a self-defeating dream. — Carlos Salinas de Gortari
There are three basic problems: how a mind can know the world of nature, how it is possible for one mind to know another, and… — Donald Davidson

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