Isolation Quotes

423 quotes by 362 authors

Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode… — Wislawa Szymborska
Although random mutations influenced the course of evolution, their influence was mainly by loss, alteration, and refinement... Never, however, did that one mutation make a… — Lynn Margulis
There is nothing more difficult to outgrow than anxieties that have become useful to us, whether as explanations for a life that never quite finds… — Christian Wiman
In worship we have our neighbors to right and left, before and behind, yet the Eternal Presence is over all and beneath all. Worship does… — Thomas Raymond Kelly
Most ideas are born and lost in isolation. — Scott Belsky
The country through which we had been travelling for days has an original beauty. Wide plains were diversified by stretches of hilly country with low… — Heinrich Harrer
Isolation always perverts; when a man lives only among his own sort, he soon begins to believe that his sort are the best sort. This… — Sydney J. Harris
So if North Korea continues present isolation, then with such economic difficulties the North Korean government must meet a very serious situation in the future. — Kim Dae-jung
Photography has taken me from isolation. — Anton Corbijn
Thanks to the greatly improved possibility of communication, we overrate its importance. Even stronger, we underrate the importance of isolation. — Edsger Dijkstra
I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation. — Zbigniew Brzezinski
Mere isolation in an enclosing idea is not a release from conflict. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
When our focus is toward a principle of relatedness and oneness, and away from fragmentation and isolation, health ensues — Larry Dossey
A dynamic duo who work well together can be worth any three people working in isolation. — Larry Constantine
You know, that single girl life and that sense of isolation - that doesn't leave you just like that. And that's what that song is… — Mary Chapin Carpenter
Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist. — Allan Sloan
If we wish to stop the atrocities, we need merely to step away from the isolation. There is a whole world waiting for us, ready… — Derrick Jensen
Sometimes isolation can be shared. — Ken Grimwood
The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach another person. — Betsy Lerner
The isolation spins its mysterious cocoon, focusing the mind on one place, one time, one rhythm - the turning of the light. The island knows… — M. L. Stedman

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