Isolation Quotes

Isolation Quote of the day

We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.

No man is an island, entire of itself.

I am going to the USA to catch sight of a wild porcupine and to give some lectures.

America was an iceberg shattered into a billion fragments, and on each stood a person, rotating like an ice floe in a storm.

It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.

Shifts within friendships happen in imperceptible increments. There is distance, then assurance. Misconjecture, caution, gradual convergence. So much depends on the respect accorded to vulnerability.

Isolated people, those who live alone, are always conscious of their condition in the homes of families.

Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

No matter how far I try to travel from people, people always appear. Either they follow me, or they're already there, and I followed them, unwittingly.

The myth of self-sufficiency demands optimism without end, downplays life’s challenges, and shames us when, inevitably, we fall short.

Over time as most people fail the survivor's exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw from relationships. The isolation of the survivor thus persists even after she is free.

Doing the things you hate is living in a world of sin. Hell is staying in the place Jesus saved you from. That is, to live on your own, without God.

It has been raining here for ten years.I keep an accurate record of time and can state this with no fear of contradiction.

Thinking is a way of condemning oneself to solitude.

Is any life so isolated that it lives only in the past and not in the present and future, too?

But most days, I wander around feeling invisible.Like I'm a speck of dustfloating in the airthat can only be seenwhen a shaft of light hits it.

It is a rare person who can cut himself off from mediate and immediate relations with others for long spaces of time without undergoing a deterioration in personality.

The best way to convert your time into products is through the power of isolation.

No wires tender even as nervescan transmit the impact ofour seasons, our catastropheswhile we are closed inside them

There is this common notion that people are shallow and ignorant until they go out and see the world. I, on the other hand, went out and in comparison realized I was in pretty good standing.

The consequences of seeking popularity is not only the chronic feeling of lonliness, but a desire to hide your face from the eyes of the universe.

People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.

Up here on the Ice each of us is singular, isolate, I as cut off from those like me, from my society, and its rules, as he from his.

Being connected to everything has disconnected us from ourselves and the preciousness of this present moment.

Separation from the community creates isolation. Isolation is the source of most physical, emotional and spiritual disease.

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.

It is my opinion that the isolated mind loses its purchase on reality all too easily and becomes prone to fantasy.

Isolation is not a healthy ‘coping’ method, it’s like quarantining yourself in a gas chamber!

I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.

You and I share the same DNA.Is there anything more lonely than that?

There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.

You can be the most productive person in your area of your calling if you can just isolate yourself and learn to convert your time into products.

I wasn't sure if it was safe for me to be sharing time and space with other people, who all seemed so much gentler and safer and less of a secret to themselves than I felt I was.

He had so much damn respect he wanted to scream.

Isolation is a way to know ourselves.

Sometimes isolation can be shared.

Isolation allows me to think more clearly, and I think out loud sometimes.After all, I wouldn't want to accuse anyone of plagiarism.

A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone.

I don't care what you think unless it is about me.

We don't heal in isolation, but in community.

Solitude vivifies isolation kills.

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

I tell myself I’m fine on my own, but am I? No friends to fall back on, no relationships, no support. Left to my own devices, I have no devices.

Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others.

I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.

Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while.

Caught in your youniverse again? Try reaching out to the one besides you!

How did men make themselves loved, I wondered. I had passed all my life with men who were loved but I seemed never to have learnt the lesson.

The power of storytelling is to free us from isolation, shame, and whatever the situation.

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