Separateness Quotes

69 quotes by 50 authors

The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment. — Arthur Miller
I learned that our deepest need is to overcome our aloneness and our separateness. We seek to escape from separateness in various ways. We seek… — Joseph Jaworski
Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most. His very "uniqueness," "separateness" and "differentiation" make him… — Emma Goldman
Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self. — Erich Fromm
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise. — Robert Frost
Here's an idea: How about just 'Americans?' That has a nice ring to it, if you ask me. Placing undue emphasis on our 'separateness' is… — Bobby Jindal
We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness. — Nhat Hanh
When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create? — Eckhart Tolle
While we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the truth is that there is still in our culture something that suspects those who… — Anna Quindlen
I could not help feeling that they were evil things-- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss. That seething… — H P Lovecraft
I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes,… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
It is an occult law moreover, that no man can rise superior to his individual failings without lifting, be it ever so little, the whole… — H. P. Blavatsky
Here we have the paradox, the potentially tragic paradox, that our relatedness to others is an essential aspect of our being, as is our separateness,… — R. D. Laing
Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all… — Rollo May
The philosopher Descartes believed he had found the most fundamental truth when he made his famous statement: "I think, therefore I am." He had, in… — Eckhart Tolle
Solitude is a condition of peace that stands in direct opposition to loneliness. Loneliness is like sitting in an empty room and being aware of… — Kent Nerburn
We are our world knowing itself. We can relinquish our separateness. We can come home again - and participate in our world in a richer,… — Joanna Macy
The meaning of our self is not to be found in its separateness from God and others, but in the ceaseless realization of yoga, of… — Rabindranath Tagore
Our self (Soul) is maya (an illusion) where it is merely individual and finite, where it considers its separateness as absolute; it is satyam (truth)… — Rabindranath Tagore

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