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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• 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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• 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 self-defeating dream.

  Carlos Salinas de Gortari

  Dream, Self

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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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• 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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• Intelligence in isolation turns to aimless marauding.

  Mason Cooley

  Intelligence, Turns

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• The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition. You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding. We create these communities from women who share common conditions, and those mothers carry each other through.

  Annie Lennox

  Mother, People, Community

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

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• I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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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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• Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lonely, Loneliness, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1870). “Past and Present”, p.381

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• Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Solitude

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• Isolation is a dream killer.

  Barbara Sher

  Life, Dream, Killers

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• We do not achieve happiness or salvation in isolation from each other but as members of society

  Margaret Thatcher

  Love, Life, Family

  Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

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• We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

  Tennessee Williams

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Orpheus Descending act 2, sc. 1 (1958)

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• Racists are not born, they are raised. Isolation is the breeding ground for racism. The more you come to know the world around you and people different than you the less likely you will become an extremist. The Church needs to bring the world together.

  Erwin McManus

  Racism, People, Church

  "‘There Is No Neutral Ground Here,’ Erwin McManus Says to The Church". Interview with Alex Murashko, togetherla.net. August 14, 2017.

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• National isolation breeds national neurosis.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Neurosis

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• The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

  Aldous Huxley

  Lonely, Powerful, Loneliness

  Aldous Huxley (1957). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

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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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• 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.

  Elijah Wood

  Real, Unique, Our World

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

  Boris Pasternak

  Auras, Moments, Abandoned

  Doctor Zhivago Ch. 9, Sect. 3

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• You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don't attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Groups, Needs, World

  "Some of the best commencement speeches ever". www.theglobeandmail.com. June 16, 2014.

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• Only in Relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction and certainly not in isolation. The movement of behavior is the sure guide to yourself. It's the mirror of your consciousness; this mirror will reveal its content, the images, the attachments, the fears, the loneliness, the joy and sorrow. Poverty lies in running away from this, either in its sublimations or its identities.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated.

  Kofi Annan

  Ignorance, Hands, Racism

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• It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.

  Henry Miller

  Ocean, Cutting, Sea

  Henry Miller (1945). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”

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