Isolation Quotes - Page 18

• No practice exists in isolation.

  Idries Shah

  Practice

  Idries Shah (1978). “Learning how to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way”, p.91, Octagon Press Ltd

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• When people wear you out, spend some time in isolation with Allah and your relationship with Him will improve as well as with the people.

  Omar Suleiman

  People, Our Relationship, Wells

  FaceBook post by Omar Suleiman from May 19, 2015

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• My Dad used to say that the balance of the world relied on all of the monks who were living outside of society in creative isolation. I don't quite understand the ascetic life or the private life or the monastic private life. But I definitely understand privacy's value.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Dad, Creative, Balance

  "It’s Sufjan Stevens’ Way or the Highway". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2009.

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• I initially wanted to tell 'Oscillate Wildly' story because it wasn't one I had heard or seen before. The invisibility piece resonated most. Somewhere over the past couple of years I realized that I've essentially been making movies for my teenage self who struggled with isolation and my own brand of invisibility living in rural Ohio.

  Travis Mathews

  Couple, Teenage, Past

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I am interested in the loneliness and isolation that we can feel when we hide feelings we are ashamed of, especially if they concern people that we love.

  Torill Kove

  Loneliness, People, Feelings

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each shall stand guard over the solitude of the other. For, if it lies in the nature of indifference and of the crowd to recognize no solitude, then love and friendship are there for the purpose of continually providing the opportunity for solitude. And only those are the true sharings which rhythmically interrupt periods of deep isolation.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Lying, Opportunity, Two

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1960). “Selected letters”

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• Many tribal peoples consider illness to be one of the most reliable sources of revelation. Many of the practices that traditional religions impose upon seekers-abstinence, isolation, stillness-are practices that illness imposes upon us, so it is in a sense a cocoon that allows revelation to unfold.

  Kat Duff

  Practice, Cocoons, Illness

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• The E.U. initially decided to end the isolation of Turkish Cyprus, to balance the accession of Cyprus. But the E.U. has not carried through on its promise.

  Ali Babacan

  Promise, Balance, Cyprus

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• And I saw for the first time how, despite the isolation of our own lives, we are always connected to our ancestors; our bodies hold the memories of those who came before us, whether it is the features we inherit or a disposition that is etched into our soul.

  Alyson Richman

  Memories, Soul, Body

  Alyson Richman (2011). “The Lost Wife”, p.237, Penguin

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• Sometimes a rural life - without agricultural culture, community, or land - it means that you're a very long drive from everything. It's a big cultural isolation in terms of any kind of schooling where you could get exposed to things that might push the positive buttons. The geography of where people find themselves situated, both in metropolises and in the heartland, really starts to matter.

  Debra Granik

  Heart, Mean, Land

  "Debra Granik on "poverty porn," self-worth, and her new film, Stray Dog". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.avclub.com. July 11, 2015.

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• A lot of people can't be on their own. They get frightened. Isolation doesn't bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.

  Jimmy Page

  People, Giving, Frightened

  "The Durable Led Zeppelin". Interview with Cameron Crowe, www.rollingstone.com. March 13, 1975.

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• Whether splendidly isolated or dangerously isolated, I will not now debate; but for my part, I think splendidly isolated, because the isolation of England comes from her superiority.

  Wilfrid Laurier

  Thinking, England, Debate

  Speech in the Canadian House of Assembly, February 5, 1896.

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• The Bush administration has now provided three case studies in arrogance, isolation and destructiveness: Michael Brown during Hurricane Katrina, Ambassador Jerry Bremer in Baghdad and Secretary Paulson at Treasury. It is a tragic and very expensive legacy. No conservative and no Republican should doubt how much it has hurt our cause and our party.

  Newt Gingrich

  Hurt, Party, Arrogance

  "Dawn of a Newt Age" by David Corn, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2009.

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• Having not really written any generational songs - I think maybe two or three of the songs that I've ever written have any bearing on the age of the listener. My stuff tends to be far more concerned with the spiritual and with subjects like isolation and being miserable.

  David Bowie

  Spiritual, Song, Thinking

  "David Bowie On The Ziggy Stardust Years: We Were Creating The 21st Century In 1971". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 11, 2016.

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• Man is a gregarious animal. He's not supposed to live in isolation. He should actually live in a community, but a community does not necessarily have to be a city. There's all the evidence in the world that the building of cities is one of the worst mistakes that mankind has ever made: For both physical and mental health we've got to be close to Mother Earth.

  Ralph Borsodi

  Mother, Mistake, Men

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• Sanctions kept us on our toes, it made us realize that we were drifting into a situation of growing isolation so I wouldn't go as far as to say sanctions didn't play a role but if I were to put on a scale, the issues of conscience played a much greater role than the sanctions. We could have withstood sanctions for many more years. We became experts in circumventing sanctions... So sanctions played a role but it wasn't the major role.

  Frederik Willem de Klerk

  Realizing, Drifting, Situation

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I've always been pulled toward people who can't seem to make anything fit. It's like a cinema of isolation, of loneliness. They go outside the system and create their own society to develop their obsession to an insane degree.

  Harmony Korine

  Loneliness, People, Insane

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Why do leaders fail? Isolation and inability to learn. They are afraid to express doubt, admit vulnerability or seek advice from subordinates. Leaders must actively work to seek feedback and a reality check. They must be open to asking questions and framing issues. As the world becomes more complex and global, the risk of isolation becomes greater. The need for leaders to be open to learning becomes greater. Great leaders will need to ask the right questions and balance inquiry with advocacy.

  Robert S. Kaplan

  Reality, Leader, Advice

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• When in our isolation we see our lives seeping away as a mere succession of moments, tossed meaninglessly about by accidents and overwhelming events; when we contemplate a history that seems to be at an end, leaving only chaos behind it, then we are impelled to raise ourselves above history.

  Karl Jaspers

  Leaving, Events, Chaos

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• I noticed that when I was on Prozac my relationship with the landscape improved. I actually stopped thinking about myself for a minute or two, because most of the thoughts one has about oneself are involved with desire or loneliness or isolation or strategies to overcome them.

  Leonard Cohen

  Loneliness, Thinking, Two

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We are awakening from the dream of isolation, from the dream of loneliness, and it's a terrible shock.

  Leonard Cohen

  Dream, Loneliness, Awakening

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For anyone with the traits - of feeling himself victimized, of seeking to be the strongman who resolves everything, yet sees truth only through his own self and negates all other truth outside of it - is bound to become more malignant when he has power. Power then breeds an intensification of all this because the power can never be absolute power - to some extent it's stymied - but the isolation while in power becomes even more dangerous. Think of it as a vicious circle. The power intensifies these tendencies and the tendencies become more dangerous because of the power.

  Robert Jay Lifton

  Thinking, Feelings, Dangerous

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I am quite surprised and rather disappointed by the loneliness, isolation and indeed demonisation the sadly misunder­stood CO2 is experiencing. Thus, upon leaving the parliament, I am contemplating the foundation of an organisation called 'The Friends of Carbon Dioxide'. Membership will of course be open to all, including the plants whose very existence depends on CO2. I think this organisation's slogan, 'CO2 is not pollution', self-selects. It has both accuracy and melody to commend it.

  Nick Minchin

  Loneliness, Thinking, Self

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• We are not talking about isolation. We're talking about security. We're not talking about religion. We're talking about security. Our country is out of control. People are pouring across the southern border. I will build a wall. It will be a great wall. People will not come in unless they come in legally. Drugs will not pour through that wall.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Wall, Talking

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Motherhood rarely allows for solitude, yet it begets its own kind of isolation: from one's past, from one's youth, from the women we once thought we were and would become.

  Hannah Nordhaus

  Motherhood, Past, Solitude

  Hannah Nordhaus (2015). “American Ghost: A Family's Extraordinary History on the Desert Frontier”, p.11, Harper Collins

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