There is a difference between solitude and isolation. One is connected and one isn't. Solitude replenishes, isolation diminishes.
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.
Isolation is a way to know ourselves.
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.
The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition.
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.
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.
Most ideas are born and lost in isolation.
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.
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.
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.
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
Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
The isolation, the separateness, is always a part of any utopia.
No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.
Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.
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.
National isolation breeds national neurosis.
Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.
When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.
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