Isolation Quote by Toni Morrison

we love as soon as we learn to distinguish a separate 'you' and 'me.' Love is our attempt to assuage the terror and isolation…

— Judith Viorst

Love is an active power in man; a power which breaks through the walls which separate man from his fellow men, which unite him…

— Erich Fromm

All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.

— Toni Morrison

Isolation, you know, carries the seeds of its own destruction because as times change, other things seep in.

— Toni Morrison

Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from…

— Haruki Murakami

“An overcrowded world is the ideal place in which to be lonely.”

— Brian W. Aldiss

“Because knowledge is only a cage if you dwell in isolation.”

— Penny Reid

Sometimes isolation can be shared.

— Ken Grimwood

Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A…

— Paul Bowles

Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other people. The…

— Sigmund Freud

“This was the difference, she thought, between solitude and isolation. And now she knew something about herself she hadn’t known before. It was an…

— James S.A. Corey

“Two people who live their lives alone in rooms doing strange, gentle things can sometimes be together in the middle of a dangerous storm…

— Samantha Hunt