Isolation Quotes

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

  Desmond Tutu

  Persons, Humans

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

  Henry Cloud

  Differences, Solitude, Connected

  Twitter post from Feb 19, 2015

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• We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

  Orson Welles

  Love, Life, Depressing

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• Isolation is a way to know ourselves.

  Franz Kafka

  Way, Knows

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• Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.

  Albert Einstein

  Truth, Justice, Community

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• The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition.

  Annie Lennox

  Worst, Isolated, Conditions

  "Annie Lennox + Dr. Mitch Besser". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The walls of isolation are not as solid as your suffering makes them seem.

  Deepak Chopra

  Wall, Suffering, Seems

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Deeper Wound”, p.37, Random House

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• Other people may complicate our lives, but life without them would be unbearably desolate. None of us can be truly human in isolation. The qualities that make us human emerge only in the ways we relate to other people.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Teamwork, People, Quality

  Harold S Kushner (2011). “When All You've Ever Wanted Isn't Enough: The Search For a Life That Matters”, p.42, Pan Macmillan

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

  Mireille Guiliano

  Technology, People

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• We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.

  Robert Zemeckis

  Function, Wells, Humans

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• Sometimes isolation can be shared.

  Ken Grimwood

  Sometimes

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• There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Two, Allies, Four

  "The Man Who Was Thursday". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, Ch. VIII : The Professor Explains, 1908.

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• 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, Enough

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• There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. And we must pass through solitude and difficulty, isolation and silence in order to reach forth to the enchanted place where we can dance our clumsy dance and sing our sorrowful song - but in this dance or in this song there are fulfilled the most ancient rites of our conscience in the awareness of being human and of believing in a common destiny.

  Pablo Neruda

  Song, Believe, Destiny

  "Towards the Splendid City". Pablo Neruda's Nobel lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 13, 1971.

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• Most ideas are born and lost in isolation.

  Scott Belsky

  Ideas, Lost, Born

  Scott Belsky (2010). “Making Ideas Happen: Overcoming the Obstacles Between Vision and Reality”, p.12, Penguin

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• We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.

  Yul Brynner

  Love, Life, Death

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• Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person’s heart and dissolve it.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Bottles, Acid

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• People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.

  Keith Henson

  Loyalty, Thinking, People

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• 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

  Inspirational, Relationship, Community

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Turning to One Another (Large Print 16pt)”, p.23, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Isolation is a self-defeating dream.

  Carlos Salinas de Gortari

  Dream, Self

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• Isolation and loneliness create the conditions for rapid aging. The key is to stay connected and open to new relationships throughout your life.

  Deepak Chopra

  Loneliness, New Relationship, Keys

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• The isolation, the separateness, is always a part of any utopia.

  Toni Morrison

  Utopia, Separateness

  Interview with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. March 08, 1998.

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• Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, "It's my own business.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Men, Play, People

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

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Country

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• Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Solitude

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