There is a difference between solitude and isolation. One is connected and one isn't. Solitude replenishes, isolation diminishes.
Isolation is a way to know ourselves.
A person is a person through other persons; you can't be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.
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.
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.
The walls of isolation are not as solid as your suffering makes them seem.
We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.
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.
Sometimes isolation can be shared.
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.
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.
The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition.
Most ideas are born and lost in isolation.
Terrified of being alone, yet afraid of intimacy, we experience widespread feelings of emptiness, of disconnection, of the unreality of self. And here the computer, a companion without emotional demands, offers a compromise. You can be a loner, but never alone. You can interact, but need never feel vulnerable to another person.
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.
We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.
Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
The isolation, the separateness, is always a part of any utopia.
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
National isolation breeds national neurosis.
No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.
When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.
Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.
Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.
Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.
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