Quotes and Sayings About Isolation

Remember you don't do anything in isolation.
-- Abdallah II

#Remember #Isolation

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

#Empowering #Horror #Isolation

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

#Islands #Isolation #Easier

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

#Two #Negative #Isolation

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

#Want #Isolation #Clear

Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist.
-- Allan Sloan

#Teamwork #Isolation #Columnists

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

#Book #Isolation #Imagine

Photography has taken me from isolation.
-- Anton Corbijn

#Photography #Taken #Isolation

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

#Thinking #Long #Isolation

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

#Self #How To Love #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.
-- Betsy Lerner

#Lonely #Isolation #Communicate

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

#Love You #Isolation #Truth Is

The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.
-- C. L. R. James

#Home #Lasts #Isolation

Love often leads to healing, while fear and isolation breed illness. And our biggest fear is abandonment.
-- Candace Pert

#Healing #Isolation #Abandonment

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 #Absence #Filled

Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
-- Carlos Salinas de Gortari

#Dream #Self #Isolation

Isolation breeds conceit.
-- Charles Dudley Warner

#Solitude #Isolation #Conceit

The gift economy represents a shift from consumption to contribution, transaction to trust, scarcity to abundance and isolation to community.
-- Charles Eisenstein

#Community #Scarcity #Isolation

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

#Nice #Writing #Isolation

Composing demands a degree of isolation.
-- Cliff Martinez

#Degrees #Demand #Isolation

To dream in isolation can be properly splendid to be sure; but to dream in company seems to me infinitely preferable.
-- Clive Barker

#Dream #Isolation #Splendid

I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation.
-- David Blaine

#Ideas #Fasting #Isolation

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

#Marriage #Moving #Isolation

A person is a person through other persons; you can't be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.
-- Desmond Tutu

#Isolation #Humans #Persons

Art and architecture -- all the arts -- do not have to exist in isolation,
-- Donald Judd

#Art #Architecture #Isolation

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

#Artist #Creative #Isolation

Humor is an antidote to isolation.
-- Elizabeth Janeway

#Laughter #Isolation #Antidote

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

#Might #Spirit #Isolation

Isolating mechanisms are biological properties of individuals that prevent the interbreeding of populations that are actually or potentially sympatric.
-- Ernst Mayr

#Population #Isolation #Individual

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

#Taken #Journey #Isolation