Isolation Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Isolation is a way to know ourselves.

  Franz Kafka

  Way, Knows

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• Sometimes isolation can be shared.

  Ken Grimwood

  Sometimes

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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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• 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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• 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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• But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, Solitude, Elevation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.19, Penguin

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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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• 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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• Isolation is a self-defeating dream.

  Carlos Salinas de Gortari

  Dream, Self

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

  Thomas Sowell

  Reality, Liberty, Littles

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• Isolation, you know, carries the seeds of its own destruction because as times change, other things seep in.

  Toni Morrison

  Destruction, Seeds, Knows

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

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• When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Good Morning, Beautiful, Eye

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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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• 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, States

  Paula Sharp (2000). “I Loved You All”, Hyperion

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• There's only two ways to be completely alone in this world, lost in a crowd or in total isolation.

  Jeff Lemire

  Two, World, Crowds

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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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• I stood lonely enough, but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed: it did not oppress me much.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Lonely, Feelings, Enough

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.43, Penguin

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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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• 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, Being The Best, Splendid

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• Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Solitude

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• Though we are all human beings, we have built walls between ourselves and our neighbors through nationalism, through race, caste, and class - which again breeds isolation, loneliness.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Wall, Loneliness, Race

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1963-1964): The New Mind”, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

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