In isolation I ruthlessly plow the deep silences, seeking my opportunities like a miner seeking veins of treasures. In what shallow glimmering space shall I find what glimmering glory?
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.
But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation.
There's only two ways to be completely alone in this world, lost in a crowd or in total isolation.
Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair.
Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.
National isolation breeds national neurosis.
Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.
We do not achieve happiness or salvation in isolation from each other but as members of society
Liberty is the possibility of isolation.
I stood lonely enough, but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed: it did not oppress me much.
There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally.
To dream in isolation can be properly splendid to be sure; but to dream in company seems to me infinitely preferable.
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
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.
Isolation must precede true society.
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.
When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.
Isolation, you know, carries the seeds of its own destruction because as times change, other things seep in.
This is the part of us that makes our brief, improbable little lives worth living: the ability to reach through our own isolation and find strength, and comfort, and warmth for and in each other. This is what human beings do. This is what we live for, the way horses live to run.
Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
Poverty is not simply having no money - it is isolation, vulnerability, humiliation and mistrust.
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.
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