Quotes and Sayings About Isolation
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
-- Adam Arkin -
Generally, I like all islands. There, it is easier to rule.
-- Albert Camus -
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.
-- Alfred Korzybski -
I want to make clear only that words are not the things spoken about, and that there is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.
-- Alfred Korzybski -
Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist.
-- Allan Sloan -
As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.
-- Ann Brashares -
I think, if you have enough inner resources, then you can live in isolation for long periods of time and not feel diminished by it.
-- Aung San Suu Kyi -
Whether we learn how to love ourselves and others will depend on the presence of a loving environment. Self-love cannot flourish in isolation.
-- Bell Hooks -
The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach another person.
-- Betsy Lerner -
The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation.
-- Bruce D. Perry -
The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.
-- C. L. R. James -
Love often leads to healing, while fear and isolation breed illness. And our biggest fear is abandonment.
-- Candace Pert -
Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists.
-- Carlos Fuentes -
Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
-- Carlos Salinas de Gortari -
The gift economy represents a shift from consumption to contribution, transaction to trust, scarcity to abundance and isolation to community.
-- Charles Eisenstein -
Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing.
-- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro -
To dream in isolation can be properly splendid to be sure; but to dream in company seems to me infinitely preferable.
-- Clive Barker -
I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation.
-- David Blaine -
Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.
-- Dennis Rainey -
A person is a person through other persons; you can't be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.
-- Desmond Tutu -
Art and architecture -- all the arts -- do not have to exist in isolation,
-- Donald Judd -
Women can also be creative in total isolation. I know excellent women artists who do original work without any response to speak of. Maybe they are used to lack of feedback. Maybe they are tougher.
-- Elaine de Kooning -
Evidently, whatever else marriage might prevent, it was not a remedy for isolation of spirit.
-- Ellen Glasgow -
Isolating mechanisms are biological properties of individuals that prevent the interbreeding of populations that are actually or potentially sympatric.
-- Ernst Mayr -
I hope the seeds I have sown will be taken up by those who will follow me because the journey I have begun cannot be undertaken in isolation.
-- Evelyn Glennie
