Isolation Quotes
While strength is the natural quality of an individual seen in isolation, power springs up between men when they act together and vanishes the moment they disperse.
Motherhood rarely allows for solitude, yet it begets its own kind of isolation: from one's past, from one's youth, from the women we once thought we were and would become.
I live in a small country in Europe - Finland - and I don't speak English well and I had nothing to do with publishing houses in the West. I lived in complete isolation.
In isolation I ruthlessly plow the deep silences, seeking my opportunities like a miner seeking veins of treasures. In what shallow glimmering space shall I find what glimmering glory?
It's really the sense of isolation, more than anything, realizing how tiny you are down in this big vast black unknown and unexplored place.
The great thing, as a screenwriter, is that you are always proud of what ends up on the screen, you are able to create something in isolation and you have a lot of freedom.
Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self-righteous isolation.
I'm not trying to be ridiculous or funny, but it was rather pleasant to find yourself in isolation, in solitary.
Consumers do not view communications in isolation. They bring with them all their past brand experiences and associations.
we love as soon as we learn to distinguish a separate 'you' and 'me.' Love is our attempt to assuage the terror and isolation of that separateness.
I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone.
My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.
Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help.
Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the one normal writer left on earth and it is this that adds to his isolation and so to his sense of guilt.
If you want to end your isolation, you must be honest about what you want at a core level and decide to go after it.
We don't live abundant and happy lives in isolation or by being takers. So by giving away your purpose to others, you will find that others want to GIVE to you, too.
Talent--that is to say, the ability to see the world in a unique way--matures and grows in isolation.
With technology, there is so much isolation with people now, that there are very few places where you can connect.
An individual poor person is an isolated island by himself and herself. IT can end that isolation overnight.
Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he'd always identified with poets.
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.
He was part of a whole, a people scattered over the earth and yet eternally one and indivisible. Wherever a Jew lived, in whatever safety and isolation, he still belonged to his people.
The differences you perceive between Humans-between groups of Humans-are the result of isolation and inbreeding, mutation, and adaptation to different Earth environments
But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation.
One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the isolation of working part-time as a house painter in Henderson County, to Cornell, where everybody was a literary person.
Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.
The American woman has not yet slipped into a cocoon, but she has tumbled down a rabbit hole into sudden isolation.
I urge North Koreas leaders to reflect on Burmas experience. While the work of reform is ongoing, Burma has already broken out of isolation and opened the door to a far better future for its people.
The novelist is more a marathon runner than long-distance runner and the kind of courage it takes working in such isolation cannot be underestimated. I really respect my fellow writers on this front.
I am interested in the loneliness and isolation that we can feel when we hide feelings we are ashamed of, especially if they concern people that we love.
Helping reproductive services doesn't just help women in isolation. It helps men just as much.
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.
I want to know what you're thinking, you want to know what I'm thinking. But we're alone. In our own minds. We're trapped in this sort of isolation.
I want to build a bridge to the 21st century that ends the permanent underclass, that lifts up the poor and ends their isolation, their exile, and they are not forgotten anymore.
When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
Acting alone in a world that's alive in political stirring is to condemn oneself to isolation and probably protracted warfare of the kind that can be dissipating.
I am going to the USA to catch sight of a wild porcupine and to give some lectures.
The best way to convert your time into products is through the power of isolation.
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.
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.
In order not to fall into isolation we have to be established in the house of God and focus on serving Him
It has been raining here for ten years.I keep an accurate record of time and can state this with no fear of contradiction.