Isolation Quotes - Page 22

• If any individual live too much in relations, so that he becomes a stranger to the resources of his own nature, he falls, after a while, into a distraction, or imbecility, from which he can only be cured by a time of isolation, which gives the renovating fountains time to rise up.

  Margaret Fuller

  Fall, Giving, Solitude

  Margaret Fuller (2012). “Woman in the Nineteenth Century”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• Scary is time passing and sickness and dying and regret and isolation and loneliness and relationship problems - as opposed to a guy in a hockey mask, which didn't seem that scary.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Regret, Loneliness, Hockey

  "Charlie Kaufman" by Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 22, 2008.

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• Isolation of the caretaker role is a real danger. That way lies sadness.

  Christopher Noxon

  Real, Lying, Sadness

  "Interview with a Plus One". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. February 13, 2015.

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• I think that if I get into the habit of writing a bit about what happens, or rather doesn't happen, I may lose a little of the sense of isolation and desolation which abides with me. My circumstances allowing of nothing but the ejaculation of one-syllabled reflections, a written monologue by that most interesting being, myself, may have its yet to be discovered consolations.

  Alice James

  Writing, Thinking, Reflection

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• Oh, the solitariness of sin! There is nothing like it, except, perhaps, the solitariness of death. In that isolation none can reach you, none can feed you.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Solitude, Sin

  Hugh Reginald Haweis (1875). “Speech in Season”, p.365

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• America has a history of political isolation and economic self-sufficiency; its citizens have tended to regard the rest of the world as a disaster area from which lucky or pushy people emigrate to the Promised Land.

  Alison Lurie

  Self, Land, America

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• Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected - pulled us out of isolation. It has let us know that somebody else breathed and dreamed and had sex and loved and raged and knew loneliness the way we do.

  Adrienne Rich

  Art, Sex, Loneliness

  Source: www.english.illinois.edu

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• The spiritual differs from the religious in being able to endure isolation. The rank of a spiritual person is proportionate to his strength for enduring isolation, whereas we religious people are constantly in need of 'the others,' the herd. We religious folks die, or despair, if we are not reassured by being in the assembly, of the same opinion as the congregation, and so on. But the Christianity of the New Testament is precisely related to the isolation of the spiritual man.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Spiritual, Religious, Men

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• Talent--that is to say, the ability to see the world in a unique way--matures and grows in isolation.

  Mieczyslaw Jastrun

  Unique, World, Way

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• Ignorant of history, we find it easy to accept our isolation from one another. We are more able to recognize differences than shared experiences and perspectives. History proclaims our common humanity.

  Linda Simon

  Common Humanity, Differences, Perspective

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• I believe that dialogue is the key to breaking through our tendency to separate and isolate. Dialogue changes isolation and loneliness into connection and interdependence. This, I believe, is the essence of Buddhism.

  Vinessa Shaw

  Loneliness, Believe, Buddhism

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• Coming to know one another based on a shared humanity through dialogue is the key to breaking down the walls of isolation and reversing the decline of life-to-life bonds among human beings.

  Vinessa Shaw

  Wall, Keys, Humanity

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• Moreover, if one selects a problem, works on it in isolation for a few years and finally solves it, there is a danger, unless the problem is very famous, that it will no longer be regarded as all that significant.

  Timothy Gowers

  Years, Problem, Mathematics

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• The Gnostics believed that exile was the essential condition of man. Do you agree? I do. The artist and the addict both wrestle with this experience of exile. They share an acute, even excruciating sensitivity to the state of separation and isolation, and both actively seek a way to overcome it, to transcend it, or at least to make the pain go away. What is the pain of being human? It's the condition of being suspended between two worlds and being unable to fully enter into either.

  Steven Pressfield

  Pain, Artist, Men

  Steven Pressfield (2012). “Turning Pro: Tap Your Inner Power and Create Your Life's Work”, p.45, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• Up there, up there in the vastness of space, in the void that is sky, up there is an enemy known as isolation. It sits there in the stars waiting, waiting with the patience of eons, forever waiting in the Twilight Zone.

  Rod Serling

  Stars, Twilight, Space

  Rod Serling (1990). “The Twilight Zone: Complete Stories”, TV Books Incorporated

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• I would get a lot of writing done if I lived in isolation in a cave under a swamp.

  Claire Cameron

  Writing, Caves, Done

  Twitter post from Mar 22, 2014

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• A mighty wind of resolution sets in strong upon him and freshens the whole atmosphere of his soul, sweeping down before it the light flakes of difficulty, till they vanish like snow upon the sea. He is imprisoned no more in a small compartment of time, but belongs to an eternity which is now and here. The isolation of his separate spirit passes away; and with the countless multitude of souls akin to God, he is but a wave of his unbounded deep. He is at one with Heaven, and hath found the secret place of the Almighty.

  James Martineau

  Strong, Light, Secret Places

  James Martineau (1843). “Endeavours After the Christian Life: Discourses”, p.260

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• My children's favorite, and it's funny because they've seen it but they have a difficult time watching it because it's their dad and they make that connection, but Edward Scissorhands is by far my kids' favorite. They just connect with the character, and they see their dad feeling that isolation, that loneliness. He's a tragic character, so I think it's hard for them. They bawl.

  Johnny Depp

  Children, Dad, Loneliness

  "Tim Burton & Johnny Depp In Step With Alice in Wonderland". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2010.

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• And that enquiring man John Synge comes next,
  That dying chose the living world for text
  And never could have rested in the tomb
  But that, long travelling, he had come
  Towards nightfall upon certain set apart
  In a most desolate stony place.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Men, Long

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.98, Library of Alexandria

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• There is a very holy and a very terrible isolation for the conscience of every man who seeks to read the destiny in affairs for others as well as for himself, for a nation as well as for individuals. That privacy no man can intrude upon. That lonely search of the spirit for the right perhaps no man can assist.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Lonely, Loneliness, Destiny

  Woodrow Wilson (2015). “Wilson, Volume V: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace, 1916-1917”, p.96, Princeton University Press

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• The surprise of animals... in and out, cats and dogs and a milk goat and chickens and guinea hens, all taken for granted, as if man was intended to live on terms of friendly intercourse with the rest of creation instead of huddling in isolation on the fourteenth floor of an apartment house in a city where animals occurred behind bars in the zoo.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Dog, Zoos, Taken

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• The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmother. A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.... The emotionally satisfying discussions that take place in Chronic Pain Outreach and Depression Resources are simply updated versions of the grandmotherly practice of hanging crepe. We could eliminate much of the isolation that support groups exist to fill and save the "traditional family" that everybody is so worried about if more couples took their aging parents to live with them.

  Florence King

  Growing Up, Couple, Pain

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• I'm the only one in my family who is deaf, and there are still conversations that go around me that I miss out on. And I ask what's going on, and I have to ask to be included. But I'm not going to be sad about it. I don't live in sad isolation. It's just a situation I'm used to.

  Marlee Matlin

  Missing, Deaf, My Family

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• Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.

  Karl Kraus

  Freedom, Cells, Austria

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• I believe that a country, Russia in this case, which can defend the honour and dignity of its citizens, protect their lives, and fulfill its international legal commitments under the peacekeeping mandate, will not find itself in isolation, no matter what our partners in Europe or the United States may think, expressing their bloc mentality.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Believe, Commitment

  Source: russialist.org

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