Isolation Quotes

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

Alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know

I was born on a tiny cot in southwestern Massachusetts during World War II. A sickly child, I turned to photography to overcome my loneliness and isolation.

Remember you don't do anything in isolation.

You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don't attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.

Scary is time passing and sickness and dying and regret and isolation and loneliness and relationship problems - as opposed to a guy in a hockey mask, which didn't seem that scary.

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

There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities.

I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity.

I think that poetry is perfect for women raising children, with just bits of time and such need to connect to other women out of the isolation of motherhood.

All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd.

The American people are not cowardly. But, living in prosperous isolation, they have been the spoiled children of modern history.

Isolation offered its own form of companionship

A lot of people can't be on their own. They get frightened. Isolation doesn't bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.

Poverty is not simply having no money - it is isolation, vulnerability, humiliation and mistrust.

Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.

The arts don't exist in isolation.

Evidently, whatever else marriage might prevent, it was not a remedy for isolation of spirit.

By circumstance and perhaps also by inclination, I think in complete intellectual isolation. To expect others to help me think seems to me almost like expecting them to help me digest my food.

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?"

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.

There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally.

Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person’s heart and dissolve it.

Intellectual isolation always follows commercial isolation.

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

Fear does its best work in isolation. Courage wears the face of your ability to love and be loved. Breakthrough happens when you discover your self-worth had nothing to do with what you looked like.

Intelligence in isolation turns to aimless marauding.

Isolation must precede true society.

Losing a son, losing a daughter, a brother, a sister, losing a close friend - it can go beyond grief to isolation and feeling despair.

Whether splendidly isolated or dangerously isolated, I will not now debate; but for my part, I think splendidly isolated, because the isolation of England comes from her superiority.

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

The new contract between writers and readers is one I'm prepared to sign up to. I've met some fascinating people at events and online. Down with the isolation of writers I say! And long live Twitter.

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

The E.U. initially decided to end the isolation of Turkish Cyprus, to balance the accession of Cyprus. But the E.U. has not carried through on its promise.

As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.

Isolation is the dream killer.

Whether we learn how to love ourselves and others will depend on the presence of a loving environment. Self-love cannot flourish in isolation.

The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach another person.

For writers, so much is done in isolation. It can be easy to feel detached, or to get a little lost along the way.

Isolation, but it's a good vulnerability. Humbling. I actually seek out solitude.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.

Isolation breeds conceit.

Isolation of the caretaker role is a real danger. That way lies sadness.

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 is a solitary activity, it requires isolation and silence.

I love to write when I feel like everybody else is asleep and when I feel like the world is kind of empty in some ways. I find, oddly enough, that I write about loneliness and isolation a lot.

If we wish to stop the atrocities, we need merely to step away from the isolation. There is a whole world waiting for us, ready to welcome us home.

I guess there are a lot of people out there that think they're supposed to define themselves in isolation, but that's not necessarily the case.

Liberty is the possibility of isolation.

The London music world isn't a particularly cohesive place. And when I'm composing, I'm not very friendly. I need isolation.