Isolation famous quotes

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

Isolation is a way to know ourselves.
-- Franz Kafka

#Way #Isolation

Something in our nature cries out to be loved by another. Isolation is devastating to the human psyche. That is why solitary confinement is considered the cruelest of punishments.
-- Gary Chapman

#Punishment #Isolation #Cry

Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness.
-- Glenn Gould

#Isolation #Indispensable #Humans

Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.
-- Hannah Arendt

#Action #Isolation #Capacity

The statement that although the past can be recorded, the future cannot, is translatable into the statistical statement: Isolated states of order are always postinteraction states, never preinteraction states.
-- Hans Reichenbach

#Past #Order #Isolation

Every morning brings new potential, but if you dwell on the misfortunes of the day before, you tend to overlook tremendous opportunities.
-- Harvey Mackay

#Good Morning #Opportunity #Isolation

There is a difference between solitude and isolation. One is connected and one isn't. Solitude replenishes, isolation diminishes.
-- Henry Cloud

#Differences #Solitude #Isolation

Oh, the solitariness of sin! There is nothing like it, except, perhaps, the solitariness of death. In that isolation none can reach you, none can feed you.
-- Hugh Reginald Haweis

#Solitude #Isolation #Sin

No practice exists in isolation.
-- Idries Shah

#Practice #Isolation

Psychotherapy is a cyclical process from isolation into relationship. It is cyclical because the patient, in terror of existential isolation, relates deeply and meaningfully to the therapist and then, strengthened by this encounter, is led back again to a confrontation with existential isolation.
-- Irvin D. Yalom

#Encounters #Patient #Isolation

Isolation offered its own form of companionship
-- Jhumpa Lahiri

#Companionship #Isolation #Form

Recovery can only take place within the context of relationships; it cannot occur in isolation.
-- Judith Lewis Herman

#Recovery #Isolation

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.
-- Judith Viorst

#Love Is #Isolation #Terror

Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.
-- Karl Kraus

#Freedom #Isolation #Scream

Sometimes isolation can be shared.
-- Ken Grimwood

#Sometimes #Isolation

I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone.
-- Laura Marling

#Who I Am #Needs #Isolation

Poverty is not deprivation, it is isolation.
-- Malcolm Gladwell

#Poverty #Isolation #Deprivation

Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone
-- Margaret J. Wheatley

#Community #Isolation #Individual

I'm the only one in my family who is deaf, and there are still conversations that go around me that I miss out on. And I ask what's going on, and I have to ask to be included. But I'm not going to be sad about it. I don't live in sad isolation. It's just a situation I'm used to.
-- Marlee Matlin

#Missing #Isolation #My Family

Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
-- Miguel de Unamuno

#Isolation #Worst #Counselor

With technology, there is so much isolation with people now, that there are very few places where you can connect.
-- Mireille Guiliano

#Technology #People #Isolation

An individual poor person is an isolated island by himself and herself. IT can end that isolation overnight.
-- Muhammad Yunus

#Technology #Islands #Isolation

The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
-- Nadine Gordimer

#Zoos #Eagles #Isolation

Isolation is a big part of songwriting.
-- Natalie Imbruglia

#Isolation #Bigs #Songwriting

When people wear you out, spend some time in isolation with Allah and your relationship with Him will improve as well as with the people.
-- Omar Suleiman

#People #Isolation #Our Relationship

Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic.
-- Paul Bowles

#Fiction #Isolation #Protect

Isolation and belonging are not absolute, provable states of being. They arise completely out of the nothingness within you; you measure their dimensions against your own firm or shaky sense of who you are.
-- Paula Sharp

#Dimensions #Conformity #Isolation

Macedonia as a whole tended to remain in isolation from the rest of Greece...
-- Peter Green

#Isolation #Macedonia #Greece

Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux

#Solitude #Isolation

I could definitely empathize with the character, with the feelings of helplessness - if only the desperation and the feeling of isolation.
-- Randy Harrison

#Character #Feelings #Isolation

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.
-- Richard Whately

#Good Morning #Morning #Isolation

We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.
-- Robert Zemeckis

#Isolation #Function #Wells

Abode where lost bodies roam each searching for its lost one.
-- Samuel Beckett

#Loneliness #Body #Isolation

Most ideas are born and lost in isolation.
-- Scott Belsky

#Ideas #Isolation #Lost

The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia authorities face the complicated task of stabilising and reviving a devastated economy after years of regional conflicts, international isolation and economic mismanagement.
-- Stanley Fischer

#Isolation #Conflict #Complicated

Some system of authority is a requirement of all communal living, and it is only the man dwelling in isolation who is not forced to respond, through defiance or submission, to the commands of others.
-- Stanley Milgram

#Men #Dwelling #Isolation

The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.
-- Steve Schmidt

#Solitude #Independence #Isolation

Being the “best you can be” is really only possible when you are deeply connected to another. Splendid isolation is for planets, not people.
-- Sue Johnson

#People #Isolation #Being The Best

Moreover, if one selects a problem, works on it in isolation for a few years and finally solves it, there is a danger, unless the problem is very famous, that it will no longer be regarded as all that significant.
-- Timothy Gowers

#Years #Problem #Isolation

The isolation, the separateness, is always a part of any utopia.
-- Toni Morrison

#Isolation #Utopia

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.
-- William J. Clinton

#Bridges #Want #Isolation

When one chooses to be a writer, psychologically there's a reason for that because you like the isolation and you like to be by yourself and you are by nature timid.
-- Woody Allen

#Isolation #Reason

Writing is a solitary activity, it requires isolation and silence.
-- Dacia Maraini

#Writing #Silence #Isolation

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.
-- Jamie Linden

#Proud #Able #Isolation

Many tribal peoples consider illness to be one of the most reliable sources of revelation. Many of the practices that traditional religions impose upon seekers-abstinence, isolation, stillness-are practices that illness imposes upon us, so it is in a sense a cocoon that allows revelation to unfold.
-- Kat Duff

#Practice #Cocoons #Isolation

It's so difficult to figure out how to offer support and also be honest with someone you love who's in a damaging relationship without making them feel defensive and retreating even further into isolation.
-- Mallory Ortberg

#Support #Honest #Isolation

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

#Poverty #Isolation #Mistrust

I think any show has the potential to bring about social change. I do not think any one show in isolation can do it. I think it is a groundswell that needs to continue to be bolstered from all ends.
-- Trevor Noah

#Thinking #Needs #Isolation

This neglect of a very important Brazilian writer is, in my view, the result of Brazil's relative isolation from what metropolitan tastemakers. If João Gilberto Noll were writing in French or German or even Russian, it's likely he'd be more broadly translated.
-- Adam Morris

#Writing #Important #Isolation

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

#Solitude #Isolation #Humbling

Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained.
-- Roger Williams

#Men #Isolation #Ought

Sanctions kept us on our toes, it made us realize that we were drifting into a situation of growing isolation so I wouldn't go as far as to say sanctions didn't play a role but if I were to put on a scale, the issues of conscience played a much greater role than the sanctions. We could have withstood sanctions for many more years. We became experts in circumventing sanctions... So sanctions played a role but it wasn't the major role.
-- Frederik Willem de Klerk

#Realizing #Isolation #Drifting

Being the “best you can be” is really only possible when you are deeply connected to another. Splendid isolation is for planets, not people.
-- Sue Johnson

#People #Isolation #Being The Best

My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.
-- Luke Ford

#Space #Isolation #Far Away