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

  Robert Zemeckis

  Function, Wells, Humans

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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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• Sometimes isolation can be shared.

  Ken Grimwood

  Sometimes

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Sherry Turkle

  Loneliness, Emotional, Self

  Sherry Turkle (1985). “The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit”, Touchstone Books

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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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• 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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• 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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• In certain areas of my life, I actively seek out solitude. Especially for someone in my line of work, solitude is, more or less, an inevitable circumstance. 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. You could see it, too, as a kind of double-edged sword. It protects me, but at the same time steadily cuts away at me from the inside.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Cutting, Solitude

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• National isolation breeds national neurosis.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Neurosis

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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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• 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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