Best Isolation Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 14

“Coming to know one another based on a shared humanity through dialogue is the key to breaking down the walls of isolation and reversing the decline of life-to-life bonds among human beings.”

Knows Humans Humanity Human Beings Wall Keys Dialogue Isolation Decline Breaking Down Shared Humanity

Author:Vinessa Shaw

“We have no evidence as yet about mind or the power to think; it seems to be a widely different kind of soul, differing as what is eternal from what is perishable; it alone is capable of existence in isolation from all other psychic powers.”

Thinking Mind Kind Different Soul Seems Existence Eternal Capable Evidence Isolation Different Kinds Psychics

Book:On the Soul

Source: On the Soul

“The differences you perceive between Humans-between groups of Humans-are the result of isolation and inbreeding, mutation, and adaptation to different Earth environments”

Humans Different Earth Differences Results Environment Groups Perceive Isolation Adaptation Mutation Inbreeding

Book:Lilith's Brood: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago

Source: Lilith's Brood: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago

“Moreover, if one selects a problem, works on it in isolation for a few years and finally solves it, there is a danger, unless the problem is very famous, that it will no longer be regarded as all that significant.”

Ifs Years Problem Danger Mathematics Solve Significant Isolation Very Famous

Author:Timothy Gowers

“The Gnostics believed that exile was the essential condition of man. Do you agree? I do. The artist and the addict both wrestle with this experience of exile. They share an acute, even excruciating sensitivity to the state of separation and isolation, and both actively seek a way to overcome it, to transcend it, or at least to make the pain go away. What is the pain of being human? It's the condition of being suspended between two worlds and being unable to fully enter into either.”

Source: Turning Pro: Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life's Work

“Up there, up there in the vastness of space, in the void that is sky, up there is an enemy known as isolation. It sits there in the stars waiting, waiting with the patience of eons, forever waiting in the Twilight Zone.”

Stars Waiting Space Known Enemy Forever Sky Isolation Zone Void Twilight Vastness Twilight Zone Vastness Of Space

Book:The Twilight Zone: Complete Stories

Source: The Twilight Zone: Complete Stories

“I would get a lot of writing done if I lived in isolation in a cave under a swamp.”

Ifs Writing Done Isolation Caves Swamps

Author:Claire Cameron

“I guess Im attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And its why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes are somewhat higher.”

Writing Character Higher Isolation Scare Stakes

Author:Conor McPherson

“Being the “best you can be” is really only possible when you are deeply connected to another. Splendid isolation is for planets, not people.”

People Planets Connected Isolation Being The Best Splendid

Author:Sue Johnson

“The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.”

Home Lasts Institutions Isolation Capitalist Contrast Strongholds

Author:C. L. R. James

“Recovery can only take place within the context of relationships; it cannot occur in isolation.”

Recovery Isolation

Author:Judith Lewis Herman

“A mighty wind of resolution sets in strong upon him and freshens the whole atmosphere of his soul, sweeping down before it the light flakes of difficulty, till they vanish like snow upon the sea. He is imprisoned no more in a small compartment of time, but belongs to an eternity which is now and here. The isolation of his separate spirit passes away; and with the countless multitude of souls akin to God, he is but a wave of his unbounded deep. He is at one with Heaven, and hath found the secret place of the Almighty.”

Source: Endeavours after the Christian life: discourses

“My children's favorite, and it's funny because they've seen it but they have a difficult time watching it because it's their dad and they make that connection, but Edward Scissorhands is by far my kids' favorite. They just connect with the character, and they see their dad feeling that isolation, that loneliness. He's a tragic character, so I think it's hard for them. They bawl.”

Thinking Children Hard Character Feelings Kids Difficult Loneliness Dad Connections My Children Isolation Tragic Difficult Times Edward Scissorhands

Author:Johnny Depp

“And that enquiring man John Synge comes next, That dying chose the living world for text And never could have rested in the tomb But that, long travelling, he had come Towards nightfall upon certain set apart In a most desolate stony place.”

Men World Life Long Certain Next Dying Isolation Tombs Desolate Nightfall

Book:Later Poems

Source: Later Poems

“There is a very holy and a very terrible isolation for the conscience of every man who seeks to read the destiny in affairs for others as well as for himself, for a nation as well as for individuals. That privacy no man can intrude upon. That lonely search of the spirit for the right perhaps no man can assist.”

Men Wells Spirit Individual Nations Destiny Loneliness Terrible Holy Conscience Lonely Affair Every Man Isolation Privacy

Book:Wilson, Volume V: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace, 1916-1917

Source: Wilson, Volume V: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace, 1916-1917

“Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. Once and again one of those great influences which we call a Cause arises in the midst of a nation. Men of strenuous minds and high ideals come forward.... The attacks they sustain are more cruel than the collision of arms.... Friends desert and despise them.... They stand alone and oftentimes are made bitter by their isolation.... They are doing nothing less than defy public opinion, and shall they convert it by blows. Yes.”

“Self-absorption intensifies isolation, but permits it to go unnoticed.”

Self Solitude Isolation Permit Unnoticed Absorption Self Absorption

Author:Mason Cooley

“Generally, I like all islands. There, it is easier to rule.”

Easier Islands Isolation Despotism

Author:Albert Camus

“The people of the United States have been fortunate in many things. One of the things in which we have been most fortunate has been that so far, due perhaps to certain basic virtues in our traditional ways of doing things, we have managed to keep the crisis of western civilization, which has devastated the rest of the world and in which we are as much involved as anybody, more or less at arm's length.”

“Abode where lost bodies roam each searching for its lost one.”

Body Lost Loneliness Isolation Abode Lost Ones

Book:The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989

Source: The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989

“The surprise of animals... in and out, cats and dogs and a milk goat and chickens and guinea hens, all taken for granted, as if man was intended to live on terms of friendly intercourse with the rest of creation instead of huddling in isolation on the fourteenth floor of an apartment house in a city where animals occurred behind bars in the zoo.”

“The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmother. A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.... The emotionally satisfying discussions that take place in Chronic Pain Outreach and Depression Resources are simply updated versions of the grandmotherly practice of hanging crepe. We could eliminate much of the isolation that support groups exist to fill and save the "traditional family" that everybody is so worried about if more couples took their aging parents to live with them.”

“I'm the only one in my family who is deaf, and there are still conversations that go around me that I miss out on. And I ask what's going on, and I have to ask to be included. But I'm not going to be sad about it. I don't live in sad isolation. It's just a situation I'm used to.”

Stills Used Asks Situation Missing Conversation My Family Isolation Deaf Deafness

Author:Marlee Matlin

“Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.”

Freedom Movement Cells Isolation Scream Austria Prussia Muzzle

Book:Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

Source: Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms

“Terrified of being alone, yet afraid of intimacy, we experience widespread feelings of emptiness, of disconnection, of the unreality of self. And here the computer, a companion without emotional demands, offers a compromise. You can be a loner, but never alone. You can interact, but need never feel vulnerable to another person.”

Source: The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit

“Trade barriers constitute isolation; isolation gives rise to hatred, hatred to war, and war to invasion.”

Giving War Hatred Trade Isolation Barriers Invasion

Author:Frederic Bastiat

“Intelligence in isolation turns to aimless marauding.”

Turns Intelligence Isolation

Author:Mason Cooley

“Rash actions are seldom committed in isolation. With the first rash action we always do too much. So we usually go on to commit asecond one--and then we do too little.”

Firsts Littles Action Too Much Goes On Committed Commit Isolation Rashness

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“I am succeeding quite well in my work and the future looks well. What special mission is God preparing me for? Cutting off all earthly ties and isolating me as it were.”

Wells Looks Success Cutting Special Succeed Achievement Missions Ties Isolation Preparing Cutting Off

Author:Ellen Swallow Richards

“No problem exists in isolation, one must first reduce it to its basic components, then tackle each component in turn.”

Firsts Problem Turns Isolation No Problem Components

Author:John le Carre

“Intellectual isolation always follows commercial isolation.”

Intellectual Isolation

Author:Ignacy Jan Paderewski

“The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia authorities face the complicated task of stabilising and reviving a devastated economy after years of regional conflicts, international isolation and economic mismanagement.”

Years Faces Economy Economic Conflict Authority Tasks International Complicated Isolation Republic Devastated Yugoslavia Mismanagement

Author:Stanley Fischer

“Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self-righteous isolation.”

Self Reality Found Social Goal Accepting Shapes Engaged Isolation Righteous Self Righteous

Author:John Dewey

“Theory and knowledge remain suspect, not because of inherent worthlessness, but because of their historic isolation from action. Without theoretical orientation, however, action is vulnerable to oversimplified and glib imitativeness-even mimicry-and to the use of the gimmick.”

Use Action Theory Vulnerable Isolation Suspects Inherent Historic Theoretical Orientation Gimmicks Worthlessness Mimicry

Book:Gestalt therapy integrated: contours of theory and practice

Source: Gestalt therapy integrated: contours of theory and practice

“The character of a whole society is the cumulative result of the countless small actions, day in and day out, of millions of persons. Who we are as a society, is the synergistic accumulation of who we are as individuals... Small changes that seem insignificant in isolation can be great contributions when they are simultaneously undertaken by many others.”

Persons Whole Character Seems Action Individual Results Millions Environmental Contribution Who We Are Isolation Sustainability Insignificant Accumulation Cumulative Small Changes Small Actions

Author:Duane Elgin

“The nuclear peril is usually seen in isolation from the threats to other forms of life and their ecosystems, but in fact it should be seen at the very center of the ecological crisis, as the cloud-covered Everest of which the more immediate, visible kinds of harm to the environment are the mere foothills.”

Source: The Fate of the Earth: And, The Abolition

“Putin likes to quote a sentence from Czar Alexander III, who said that Russian has only two allies - the army and the navy. As a citizen, this makes me sit up and take notice. This is a concept of self-imposed isolation, a defense strategy that sees Russia surrounded by enemies.”

Said Two Self Enemy Citizens Concepts Army Strategy Sentences Defense Russia Likes Isolation Allies Navy Putin Czars

Author:Vladimir Sorokin

“It was a magic caused by the collision of modern methods and old ones; modern history and ancient; accessibility and isolation. And it was a magic which could only strike spark about that time. A few years earlier, from the point of view of aircraft alone, it would have been impossible to reach these places; a few later, and there will be no such isolation.”

Years Has Beens Views Impossible Magic Modern Method Ancient Point Of View Strikes Flight Isolation Aviation Sparks Aircraft Collision Accessibility Modern History

Book:NORTH TO THE ORIENT

Source: NORTH TO THE ORIENT

“There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.”

Way Writing Rooms Known Stage Solutions Sticks Endure Patient Isolation Civilized Tamed

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help.”

Mean Doe Helping Independence Superiors Isolation Arrogant Disdain

Book:The Essential Writings

Source: The Essential Writings

“My stories tend to bring people from isolation into community - with at least one other person, usually with a whole community of people - so that they find themselves accepted back by a world that they kind of fled from.”

People World Kind Persons Whole Stories Community Accepted Isolation

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“There was no singles problem until singles got so single-minded that they stopped wasting time with anyone ineligible. Before that, it was understood that one of society's main tasks was matchmaking. People with lifelong friendships and ties to local nonprofessional organizations did not have to fear that isolation would accompany retirement, old age, or losing a spouse. Overburdened householders could count on the assistance not only of their own extended families, but of the American tradition of neighborliness.”

“I like the varying rhythm of being a writer that you have a period of being in complete isolation where it's just you and the book and your screenplay and no-one can read it.”

Book Periods Rhythm Isolation Screenplays

Author:Patrick Marber

“Writing is a solitary activity, it requires isolation and silence.”

Writing Silence Activity Isolation Solitary

Author:Dacia Maraini

“I enjoy the fact that, as a gay man, there's relatively little pressure on me to act like a grown-up, but also I see the pitfalls that we're susceptible to, addiction, isolation, loneliness, mental illness, not to mention the embarrassing fashion choices.”

Men Littles Facts Choices Enjoy Fashion Loneliness Gay Pressure Addiction Illness Mental Illness Isolation Embarrassing Gay Men Susceptible Pitfalls

Author:Vestal McIntyre

“People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.”

People Thinking Social Pressure Threat Loyalty Intense Isolation Family And Friends Social Change Social Pressure Sudden Change

Author:Keith Henson

“To talk only about national security, national defense, means to be selfish, ambitious. It is discrimination, isolation. "It is just me. What do I care about others?"”

Mean Care Security Defense Selfish Discrimination Isolation Ambitious I Care National Security Being Selfish National Defense

Author:Evo Morales

“When Pico [Iyer] talks about home being a place of isolation, I think he's right. But it's the paradox. I think that's why I so love Great Salt Lake. Every day when I look out at that lake, I think, "Ah, paradox" - a body of water than no one can drink. It's the liquid lie of the desert. But I think we have those paradoxes within us and certainly the whole idea of home is windswept with paradox.”

Thinking Looks Ideas Whole Home Body Lying Water Drink Desert Isolation Lakes Paradox Salt Liquid Bodies Of Water

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“There are so many things that are incompatible with a single life. No one can learn fully in one life the lessons of unbroken health and of bodily sickness, of riches and of poverty, of study and action, of comradeship and isolation, of defiance and of obedience, of virtue and of vice.”

Action Poverty Virtue Study Lessons Vices Riches Obedience Isolation Sickness Reincarnation Defiance Single Life Unbroken Comradeship

Author:J. M. E. McTaggart

“Could it be that the atomic isolation of the husband and wife nucleus with an orbiting child or two is in fact a culturally imposed aberration for our species? As ill-suited to our evolved tendencies as corsets, chastity belts, and suits of armor? ...a distorted and distorting family structure inappropriate for our species?”

Children Two Facts Wife Husband Structure Species Ill Tendencies Suits Isolation Belts Armor Husband And Wife Chastity Inappropriate Nucleus Aberration Corsets Suits Of Armor

Author:Christopher Ryan

Isolation Quotes

Related topics

Isolation Quotes