Competition Quote by Thomas Carlyle

We do not aspire to communal life but to a life apart.

— Max Stirner

“In the late twentieth century we consider solitude our natural condition. Mates divorce, and even friendship is diagnosed as a disorder - co-dependency. So…

— Penn Jillette

Because of our belief in being separate, we fall into all kinds of harmful actions and deeds that create more problems for us. Competitiveness…

— Dennis Merzel

We live in a highly competitive society, each of us trying to outdo the other in wealth, in popularity or social prestige, in dress,…

— S. I. Hayakawa

I've actually read that isolation is the enemy, so why do that to myself?

— Phil Heath

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

— Thomas Carlyle

“What do you mean by isolation?' I asked him. 'Why, the isolation that prevails everywhere, above all in our age-it has not fully developed,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Conflicts are however a part of life: wherever people are together, there will be incompatibility in their thoughts, feelings or actions. It is enormously…

— Sylvia Loehken

There is no separation. We are all from the same place. As long as there is respect and acknowledgement of connections, things continue working.…

— Joy Harjo

Isolation must precede true society.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Isolation is a way to know ourselves.

— Franz Kafka

“One’s efforts to escape isolation can sabotage one’s relationships with other people. Many a friendship or marriage has failed because, instead of relating to,…

— Irvin D. Yalom