Isolation Quotes

Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings of isolation. I think that is one reason why young readers support my work.

There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past.

I rent houses in LA when I'm filming. I find the isolation there terrifying. There's nowhere to go, there's nowhere to be with people. I'm not a beach bunny.

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.

This is a fundamental view of the world. It says that when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it.

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

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

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.

And with each day that passed, the gulf broadened and my isolation became more accentuated. In such a situation, the discovery that my experience was not unique, that it had also been that of other Spanish intellectuals, became very important for me.

You know, that single girl life and that sense of isolation - that doesn't leave you just like that. And that's what that song is about. I remember that, and that is imprinted on me, that sense.

National isolation breeds national neurosis.

Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.

There's a real purity in New Zealand that doesn't exist in the states. It's actually not an easy thing to find in our world anymore. It's a unique place because it is so far away from the rest of the world. There is a sense of isolation and also being protected.

Too much of what is called "education" is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.

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.

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.

The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.

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

I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.

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

Remember you don't do anything in isolation.

No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

Composing demands a degree of isolation.

I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation.

Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.