Isolation Quotes - Page 13

• The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation.

  Steven Pressfield

  Artist, Self, Rejection

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.68, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• The split in America, rather than simply economic, is between those who embrace reason, who function in the real world of cause and effect, and those who, numbed by isolation and despair, now seek meaning in a mythical world of intuition, a world that is no longer reality-based, a world of magic.

  Chris Hedges

  Real, America, Intuition

  Chris Hedges (2008). “American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness.

  Glenn Gould

  Indispensable, Humans, Human Happiness

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• Do we get what we want? Yes, we get what we want. God is that
  loving. If we want isolation, despair, and the right to be our own
  god, God graciously grants us that option. If we insist on using our
  God-given pwer to make the world in our image, God allows us that
  freedom; we have the kind of license to do that.that's how love
  works. It cant be forced, manipulated, or coerced. It always leaves
  room for the other to decide. God says yes, we can have what we want,
  because love wins.

  Rob Bell

  Winning, Yes We Can, Despair

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• The outstretched arms of Jesus exclude no one, not the drunk in the doorway, the panhandler on the street, gays and lesbians in their isolation, the most selfish and ungrateful in their cocoons, the most unjust of employers and the most overweening of snobs. The love of Christ embraces all without exception.

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Selfish, Gay

  Brennan Manning (2009). “The Furious Longing of God”, p.60, David C Cook

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• And with each day that passed, the gulf broadened and my isolation became more accentuated. In such a situation, the discovery that my experience was not unique, that it had also been that of other Spanish intellectuals, became very important for me.

  Juan Goytisolo

  Unique, Discovery, Important

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• Some people give theirselves a certain number of white weeks once in a year, when they do not drink a single drop of alcohol. It is really wise. I myself have a few weeks per year, let us call them white or black, when I am not interested in the world around. When I come back from this isolation of the news, I realize that I have missed nothing significant. We live in the rain of disinformation and rumors, where the truth is a very small number. In those weeks of dissociation I seek for knowledge that lies within me.

  Henning Mankell

  Wise, Lying, Rain

  FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Mar 09, 2012

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• Authentic thinking, thinking that is concerned about reality, does not take place in ivory tower isolation, but only in communication. If it is true that thought has meaning only when generated by action upon the world, the subordination of students to teachers becomes impossible.

  Paulo Freire

  Teacher, Communication, Reality

  Paulo Freire, Elizabeth Galligan, Romelia Hurtado de Vivas (2008). “Pioneers in Education: Essays in Honor of Paulo Freire”, p.109, Nova Publishers

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• Art and architecture - all the arts - do not have to exist in isolation.

  Donald Judd

  Art, Architecture

  Donald Judd (1987). “Complete Writings, 1975-1986”

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• There is nothing more difficult to outgrow than anxieties that have become useful to us, whether as explanations for a life that never quite finds its true force or direction, or as fuel for ambition, or as a kind of reflexive secular religion that, paradoxically, unites us with others in a shared sense of complete isolation: you feel at home in the world only by never feeling at home in the world.

  Christian Wiman

  Home, Ambition, Anxiety

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• In worship we have our neighbors to right and left, before and behind, yet the Eternal Presence is over all and beneath all. Worship does not consist in achieving a mental state of concentrated isolation from one’s fellows. But in depth of common worship it is as if we found our separate lives were all one life, within whom we live and move and have our being.

  Thomas Raymond Kelly

  Moving, Depth, Doe

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• The reduced variability of small populations is not always due to accidental gene loss, but sometimes to the fact that the entire population was started by a single pair or by a single fertilized female. These 'founders' of the population carried with them only a very small proportion of the variability of the parent population. This 'founder' principle sometimes explains even the uniformity of rather large populations, particularly if they are well isolated and near the borders of the range of the species.

  Ernst Mayr

  Loss, Science, Parent

  Ernst Mayr (1942). “Systematics and the Origin of Species, from the Viewpoint of a Zoologist”, p.237, Harvard University Press

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• The country through which we had been travelling for days has an original beauty. Wide plains were diversified by stretches of hilly country with low passes. We often had to wade through swift running ice-cold brooks. It has long since we had seen a glacier, but as we were approaching the tasam at Barka, a chain of glaciers gleaming in the sunshine came into view. The landscape was dominated by the 25,000-foot peak of Gurla Mandhata; less striking, but far more famous, was the sacred Mount Kailash, 3,000 feet lower, which stands in majestic isolation apart from the Himalayan range.

  Heinrich Harrer

  Running, Country, Sunshine

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• Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.

  Jules Verne

  Solitude, Endurance, Painful

  Jules Verne (2016). “The Mysterious Island (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.361, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• As much as we sometimes roll our eyes at the ivory-tower isolation of universities, they continue to serve as remarkable engines of innovation.

  Steven Johnson

  Eye, Ivory Tower, Innovation

  "Kevin Kelly and Steven Johnson on Where Ideas Come From". Interview with Kevin Kelly, www.wired.com. September 27, 2010.

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• As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.

  Ann Brashares

  Book, Imagine, Hard

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• I think I'm Swedish because I like to live here on this island. You can't imagine the loneliness and isolation in this country. In that way, I'm very Swedish - I don't dislike to be alone.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Country, Loneliness, Thinking

  Ingmar Bergman, Raphael Shargel (2007). “Ingmar Bergman: Interviews”, p.170, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The gospel is never heard in isolation. It is always heard against the background of the cultural milieu in which one lives. A person raised in a cultural milieu in which Christianity is still seen as an intellectually viable option will display an openness to the gospel which a person who is secularized will not [as such] part of the broader task of Christian scholarship is to help create and sustain a cultural milieu in which the gospel can be heard as an intellectually viable option for thinking men and women.

  William Lane Craig

  Christian, Men, Thinking

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• The goal is not to improve one measurement in isolation. The goal is to reduce operational expenses AND reduce inventories and increase throughput simultaneously.

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt

  Goal, Inventory, Measurement

  Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox (2016). “The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement”, p.84, Routledge

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• Isolation from power makes men look for a mob in which they can be strong.

  Herbert Gold

  Strong, Men, Looks

  Herbert Gold (2018). “The Magic Will: Stories and Essays”, p.240, Routledge

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• Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing.

  Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

  Nice, Writing, Break

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• And yet, these insights of connectedness and oneness, which make us feel so at home in the world, are so difficult to hold onto. And so, inevitably, we wind up living lives of isolation and loneliness.

  Irwin Kula

  Loneliness, Live Life, Home

  "Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero". "Frontline", www.pbs.org. 2002.

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• It's so difficult to figure out how to offer support and also be honest with someone you love who's in a damaging relationship without making them feel defensive and retreating even further into isolation.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Support, Honest, One You Love

  "Fostering a Future". "Dear Prudence", slate.com. January 8, 2018.

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• I want to make clear only that words are not the things spoken about, and that there is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Ideas, Want, Clear

  Alfred Korzybski (1958). “Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics”, p.50, Institute of GS

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• It's like being a newborn, this sudden sensory overload of noise, color, smells and gravity after months of quietly floating, encased in relative calm and isolation. No wonder babies cry in protest when they're born.

  Chris Hadfield

  Baby, Color, Smell

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.170, Pan Macmillan

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