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“Maybe that's what growing up means, in the end - you go far enough in the direction of - somewhere - and you realise that you've neutered the capacity of the term home to mean anything. [...] We don't get an endless number of orbits away from the place where meaning first arises, that treasure-house of first experiences. What we learn, instead, is that our adventures secure us in our isolation. Experience revokes our licence to return to simpler times. Sooner or later, there's no place remotely like home.”

Firsts Mean Ends Enough Home House Term Numbers Growing Up Growing Adventure Return Capacity Treasure Endless Arise Secure Isolation Realising Sooner Or Later Orbit Simpler Times

Author:Gregory Maguire

“Something in our nature cries out to be loved by another. Isolation is devastating to the human psyche. That is why solitary confinement is considered the cruelest of punishments.”

Humans Cry Punishment Isolation Solitary Confinement Human Psyche Solitary Confinement

Book:The 5 Love Languages/Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married Set

Source: The 5 Love Languages/Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married Set

“There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. And we must pass through solitude and difficulty, isolation and silence in order to reach forth to the enchanted place where we can dance our clumsy dance and sing our sorrowful song - but in this dance or in this song there are fulfilled the most ancient rites of our conscience in the awareness of being human and of believing in a common destiny.”

“No factions? A world in which no one knows who they are or where they fit? I can't even fathom it. I imagine only chaos and isolation.”

Knows World I Can Imagine Fit Chaos Isolation Factions Fathom

Author:Veronica Roth

“You experience life alone, you can be as intimate with another as much as you like, but there has to be always a part of you and your existence that is incommunicable; you die alone, the experience is yours alone, you might have a dozen spectators who love you, but your isolation, from birth to death, is never fully penetrated.”

Might Dies Existence Love You Birth Intimate Isolation Dozen Spectators

Book:A Fraction of the Whole

Source: A Fraction of the Whole

“Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.”

Men Loneliness Lonely Isolation Wretchedness Isolationism Isolation And Loneliness

Book:Past and Present

Source: Past and Present

“Jesus went without comfort so that you might have it. He postponed joy so that you might share in it. He willingly chose isolation so that you might never be alone in your hurt and sorrow. He had no real fellowship so that fellowship might be yours, this moment. This alone is enough cause for great gratitude!”

Real Enough Moments Might Joy Jesus Causes Hurt Share Sorrow Gratitude Comfort Isolation Fellowship Great Gratitude

Author:Joni Eareckson Tada

“I have become convinced that the more wealth a country accumulates, the more isolated and lonely its people become. The loneliest are usually the children and the elderly. Children learn what they live, and isolation in the ‘village’ is one of the most destructive messages we daily write on the tablets of their hearts.”

People Writing Heart Children Country Wealth Messages Lonely Convinced Isolation Destructive Village Isolated Elderly Tablets

Book:Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most

Source: Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most

“The problem is not that religious people are stupid. It's not that religious fundamentalists are stupid. I happen to think that you can be so well educated that you can build a nuclear bomb, and still get--and still believe that you will get the 72 virgins in paradise--that is the problem. The problem is that--religion--because it has been sheltered from criticism as it has been--allows people--perfectly sane, perfectly intelligent people--to believe en masse, what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.”

People Thinking Believe Wells Has Beens Stills Problem Happens Religious Stupid Criticism Intelligent Nuclear Educated Idiot Paradise Isolation Bombs Sane Virgins Nuclear Bomb Well Educated

Author:Sam Harris

“I stood lonely enough, but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed: it did not oppress me much.”

Enough Feelings Lonely Isolation Accustomed

Book:The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, "It's my own business.”

People Men Doe Matter Play Stories Can Do My Own Written Isolation One Man Own Business

Author:Madeleine L'Engle

“The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.”

Thinking Trying Ideas Bigs Tables Tricks Glorious Isolation Good Ideas Engineering Think Big

Book:Where Good Ideas Come From

Source: Where Good Ideas Come From

“But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.”

Loneliness Independence Isolation Privacy King Of Attolia Isolation And Loneliness

Author:Megan Whalen Turner

“Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic.”

Fiction Protect Concepts Isolation Isolated Cushions Anesthetics

Book:Conversations with Paul Bowles

Source: Conversations with Paul Bowles

“He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of it's frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface; but there was nothing nothing unfriendly in his silence. I simply felt that he lived in a depth of moral isolation too remote for casual access, and I had the sense that his loneliness was not merely the result of his personal plight, tragic as I guessed that to be, but had in it, as Harmon Gow had hinted, the profound accumulated cold of many Starkfield winters.”

“Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic conditions: - (1) an elevated level of general well being which allows people to devote themselves to useless activities (2) a high degree of social atomization and , as a consequence, a general isolation of individuals; (3) the absence of dramatic social changes in the nation's internal life.”

“Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking about; and (2) There is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.”

Humans Two Objects Negative Absolutes Repeats Isolation Crucial Human Experience Premises

Author:Alfred Korzybski

“Believe me, I know what it's like to feel all alone...the worst kind of loneliness in the world is isolation that comes from being misunderstood, it can make people lose their grasp on reality. - Sienna Brooks”

People Knows World Feels Believe Kind Reality Loses Worst Loneliness Isolation Believe In Me Misunderstood Brooks All Alone Being Misunderstood

Book:Inferno: (Robert Langdon Book 4)

Source: Inferno: (Robert Langdon Book 4)

“Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.”

Feelings Truth Community Justice Awareness Strive Invisible Isolation Daily Life Belonging Typical Loner

Author:Albert Einstein

“Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the reliable silence of her rooms, the steadfast tranquility of the evenings. The promise that she would find things where she put them, that there would be no interruption, no surprise. It greeted her at the end of each day and lay still with her at night.”

Stills Ends Would Be Form Night Rooms Silence Promise Lays Surprise Evening Isolation Each Day Companionship Tranquility Steadfast Interruptions

Author:Jhumpa Lahiri

“Isolation offered its own form of companionship”

Form Isolation Companionship Steadfast

Book:The Lowland

Source: The Lowland

“If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.”

Ifs Artist Strong Block Isolation Temper Uncertain Stumbling Stumbling Blocks

Author:Paul Cezanne

“Isolation is aloneness that feels forced upon you, like a punishment. Solitude is aloneness you choose and embrace. I think great things can come out of solitude, out of going to a place where all is quiet except the beating of your heart.”

Thinking Feels Heart Solitude Quiet Embrace Punishment Great Things Isolation You Choose Being Alone

Author:Jeanne Marie Laskas

“And to get the work done that I must do, one has to work in isolation and not be readily disturbed... I don't have daily newspapers, and I like to feel when I get up in the morning my attention is fixed on the work I am going to do.”

Feels Done Attention Creativity Morning Newspapers Get Up Fixed Isolation Being Alone Disturbed Work Done

Author:Reg Butler

“And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a little while painting to suggest it.”

Needs Littles I Can Dream Seems Grows Effort Creativity Creative Painting Stronger Isolation Introvert Being Alone

Author:Paul Gauguin

“The artist is a strange being. I think it's safe to say that a real artist is conscious of having a personal singularity that is partly a blessing and partly a curse. An artist enjoys and suffers from isolation. As solitude, isolation can nurture. It can also destroy.”

Thinking Real Artist Suffering Enjoy Creativity Strange Blessing Solitude Safe Conscious Curse Isolation Nurture Being Alone Singularity Real Artists

Author:Peter Schjeldahl

“Consumers do not view communications in isolation. They bring with them all their past brand experiences and associations.”

Past Views Business Communication Advertising Brands Consumers Isolation Association

Author:Josh Hunt

“In any age courage is the simple virtue needed for a human being to traverse the rocky road from infancy to maturity of personality. But in an age of anxiety, an age of herd morality and personal isolation, courage is a sine qua non. In periods when the mores of the society were more consistent guides, the individual was more firmly cushioned in his crises of development; but in times of transition like ours, the individual is thrown on his own at an earlier age and for a longer period.”

“The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.”

“Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.”

Writing Action Freedom Rights Effects Citizens Speech Threat Isolation Thrive Freedom Of Speech Disrespect Cumulative

Book:It is what I think, 1947-1948

Source: It is what I think, 1947-1948

“You know that feeling when you wake up in the morning and you're excited for the day? That's one of my main goals in life.”

“I think growing up on a farm in a certain amount of isolation, with not a lot of friends nearby, makes you entertain yourself and kind of grows your imagination - being alone is quite good for all that. You make up stories, talk to the animals, let them be an audience, a bunch of cows.”

Thinking Kind Stories Certain Grows Imagination Animal Audience Growing Up Growing Amount Bunch Isolation Farms Cows Hilarious Lots Of Friends

Author:Kristen Schaal

“Only in Relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness; this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joy and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.”

“The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.”

Ifs Religion Tragedy Dues Isolation

Author:Abraham Joshua Heschel

“Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.”

Men Action Community Poverty Struggle Greater Society Hero Empowerment Isolation Misfortunes Minors Obscure Abandonment Battlefields Life Struggle

Book:The novels

Source: The novels

“A new species develops if a population which has become geographically isolated from its parental species acquires during this period of isolation characters which promote or guarantee reproductive isolation when the external barriers break down.”

Ifs Character Science Break Evolution Periods Species Population Isolation Acquire Guarantees Barriers Isolated Breaking Down Parental

Book:Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist

Source: Toward a New Philosophy of Biology: Observations of an Evolutionist

“One key to success is to have lunch at the time of day most people have breakfast.”

People Morning Keys Isolation Breakfast Lunch Key To Success Up Early Early Morning Time Of Day Waking Up In The Morning Beautiful Morning Waking Up Early Waking Up Every Morning

Author:Robert Breault

“When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.”

World Firsts Looks Eye Beautiful Morning Alive Isolation Thank God Meadows Good Morning Beautiful World Beautiful Morning Morning Inspirational Funny Good Morning I Am Alive Good Morning Inspirational

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.”

Source: Close to Home

“From the standpoint of the child, the great waste in the school comes from his inability to utilize the experiences he gets outside the school in any complete and free way within the school itself; while, on the other hand, he is unable to apply in daily life what he is learning at school. That is the isolation of the school — its isolation from life.”

Way Children Hands School Justice Waste Social Justice Isolation Daily Life Inability

Author:John Dewey

“The age of isolation is gone. And gone are the days in which barbed wire served as demarcation lines, separating and isolating countries from one another. No country can escape looking beyond its boundaries to find the source of the currents which influence how it can live with others.”

Country Age Lines Justice Gone Influence Source Diversity Social Justice Currents Boundaries Isolation Wire Separating Barbed Wire

Book:Egypt's liberation: the philosophy of the revolution

Source: Egypt's liberation: the philosophy of the revolution

“We call it a Society; and go about professing openly the totalest separation, isolation. Our life is not a mutual helpfulness; but rather, cloaked under due laws-of-war, named fair competition and so forth, it is a mutual hostility.”

War Law Life Is Our Lives Society Fairs Competition Dues Separation Isolation Mutual Hostility Helpfulness

Book:Past and Present

Source: Past and Present

“The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.”

Life Years Funny Morning Sun Bed Caught Isolation Fifty Good Day Good Morning Up Early Early Morning Beautiful Morning Morning Inspirational Waking Up Early Waking Up Every Morning

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“If poverty is a disease that infects the entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we can't just treat those symptoms in isolation . We have to heal that entire community.”

Ifs Home School Form Community Healing Poverty Violence Failing Broken Disease Treats Heal Isolation Unemployment Symptoms Ending Poverty Broken Homes

Author:Barack Obama

“A library takes the gift of reading one step further by offering personalized learning opportunities second to none, a powerful antidote to the isolation of the Web.”

Kids Reading Opportunity Powerful Steps Library Isolation Offering Antidote Personalized

Author:Julie Andrews

“Now, is it possible not to be hurt at all? Because the consequences of being hurt are the building of a wall around oneself, withdrawing in one's relationship with others in order not to be hurt more. In that there is fear and a gradual isolation. Now, we are asking: Is it possible not only to be free of past hurts but also never to be hurt again?”

Past Order Hurt Building Wall Consequence Asking Oneself Isolation Being Hurt Relationships With Others Withdrawing

Book:The Flame of Attention

Source: The Flame of Attention

“In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors.”

Men States Together Desire Cities Gains Fortune Neighbor Operations Isolation Careless Great Cities Neighbor Love

Book:Sybil: or, the two nations

Source: Sybil: or, the two nations

“The more we study the major problems of our time, the more we come to realise that they cannot be understood in isolation. They are systemic problems, which means that they are interconnected and interdependent.”

Mean Problem Humanity Study Majors Understood Our Time Isolation Realising Interconnected Major Problems

Book:The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems

Source: The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems

“Srinivasa Ramanujan was the strangest man in all of mathematics, probably in the entire history of science. He has been compared to a bursting supernova, illuminating the darkest, most profound corners of mathematics, before being tragically struck down by tuberculosis at the age of 33, like Riemann before him. Working in total isolation from the main currents of his field, he was able to rederive 100 years' worth of Western mathematics on his own. The tragedy of his life is that much of his work was wasted rediscovering known mathematics.”

“Subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement.”

Science Understanding Understood Experiments Observation Preparation Isolation Isolated Entity Particles Measurement Interconnection Subatomic Particles

Book:The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism

Source: The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism

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