Isolation Quotes - Page 6

• Composing demands a degree of isolation.

  Cliff Martinez

  Degrees, Demand, Composing

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• A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not about political prestige or military power. This new race involves the whole human species in a contest against time. All of the people of the Earth are in a desperate race against disaster... To save the Earth we must look beyond it, to interplanetary space. To present the collapse of civilization and the end of the world as we know it, we must understand that our planet does not exist in isolation.

  Ben Bova

  Military, Civilization, Space

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• The problem is not that religious people are stupid. It's not that religious fundamentalists are stupid. I happen to think that you can be so well educated that you can build a nuclear bomb, and still get--and still believe that you will get the 72 virgins in paradise--that is the problem. The problem is that--religion--because it has been sheltered from criticism as it has been--allows people--perfectly sane, perfectly intelligent people--to believe en masse, what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Stupid, Believe

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• It is far easier to be a Christian in isolation than it is to live out one’s faith in the context of all those other imperfect people who make up God’s church.

  Gordon Fee

  Christian, People, Church

  Gordon D. Fee (1994). “Paul, the Spirit, and the People of God”, p.81, Baker Academic

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• Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.

  Abdallah II

  Justice, Intellectual, Target

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• Veterans report that service dogs help break their isolation. People will often avert their eyes when they see a wounded veteran. But when the veteran has a dog, the same people will come up and say, 'Hi' to pet the dog and then strike up a conversation.

  Al Franken

  Dog, Eye, People

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• I walk out my front door in New York and I'm out on the street and there are people everywhere. L.A. is so much more spread out, so it's really easy in L.A. to have a little more isolation and to just not see as many people.

  Moby

  New York, Doors, People

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• To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.

  Sidney Poitier

  Good Morning, Good Day, Morning Inspirational

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• Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.

  Salman Rushdie

  Somewhere Else, Wish, Melancholy

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• If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Loneliness, Heart, World

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• So he was deserted. The whole world was clamouring: Kill yourself, kill yourself, for our sakes. But why should he kill himself for their sakes? Food was pleasant; the sun hot; and this killing oneself, how does one set about it, with a table knife, uglily, with floods of blood, - by sucking a gaspipe? He was too weak; he could scarcely raise his hand. Besides, now that he was quite alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know.

  Virginia Woolf

  Blood, Hands, Knives

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.92, Broadview Press

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• Quantum theory thus reveals a basic oneness of the universe. It shows that we cannot decompose the world into independently existing smallest units. As we penetrate into matter, nature does not show us any isolated "building blocks," but rather appears as a complicated web of relations between the various parts of the whole. These relations always include the observer in an essential way. The human observer constitute the final link in the chain of observational processes, and the properties of any atomic object can be understood only in terms of the object's interaction with the observer.

  Fritjof Capra

  Nature, Block, Science

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• Prayer is an end to isolation. It is living our daily life with someone; with him who alone can deliver us from solitude.

  Georges Lefebvre

  Prayer, Solitude, Daily Life

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• I think that poetry is perfect for women raising children, with just bits of time and such need to connect to other women out of the isolation of motherhood.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Children, Motherhood, Thinking

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• I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It's very strange how often strong feelings don't seem to carry any message of action

  Philip Larkin

  Strong, Feelings, Usual

  Philip Larkin (2012). “Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica”, p.339, Faber & Faber

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• Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union

  Rollo May

  Love, Life, Funny Relationship

  "Love and Will". Book by Rollo May (p. 313), 1969.

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• Maybe that's what growing up means, in the end - you go far enough in the direction of - somewhere - and you realise that you've neutered the capacity of the term home to mean anything. [...] We don't get an endless number of orbits away from the place where meaning first arises, that treasure-house of first experiences. What we learn, instead, is that our adventures secure us in our isolation. Experience revokes our licence to return to simpler times. Sooner or later, there's no place remotely like home.

  Gregory Maguire

  Growing Up, Home, Adventure

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• Something in our nature cries out to be loved by another. Isolation is devastating to the human psyche. That is why solitary confinement is considered the cruelest of punishments.

  Gary Chapman

  Punishment, Cry, Solitary

  Gary Chapman (2010). “The 5 Love Languages/Things I Wish I'd Known Before We Got Married Set”, p.18, Moody Publishers

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• No factions? A world in which no one knows who they are or where they fit? I can't even fathom it. I imagine only chaos and isolation.

  Veronica Roth

  World, Chaos, Imagine

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• Jesus went without comfort so that you might have it. He postponed joy so that you might share in it. He willingly chose isolation so that you might never be alone in your hurt and sorrow. He had no real fellowship so that fellowship might be yours, this moment. This alone is enough cause for great gratitude!

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Gratitude, Jesus, Hurt

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• I have become convinced that the more wealth a country accumulates, the more isolated and lonely its people become. The loneliest are usually the children and the elderly. Children learn what they live, and isolation in the ‘village’ is one of the most destructive messages we daily write on the tablets of their hearts.

  Wess Stafford

  Country, Lonely, Children

  Wess Stafford (2010). “Too Small to Ignore: Why the Least of These Matters Most”, p.55, WaterBrook

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• The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.

  Steven Johnson

  Thinking, Engineering, Ideas

  Steven Johnson (2010). “Where Good Ideas Come From”, p.32, Penguin

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• He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of it's frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface; but there was nothing nothing unfriendly in his silence. I simply felt that he lived in a depth of moral isolation too remote for casual access, and I had the sense that his loneliness was not merely the result of his personal plight, tragic as I guessed that to be, but had in it, as Harmon Gow had hinted, the profound accumulated cold of many Starkfield winters.

  Edith Wharton

  Loneliness, Winter, Profound

  Ethan Frome preface (1911)

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• Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic conditions: - (1) an elevated level of general well being which allows people to devote themselves to useless activities (2) a high degree of social atomization and , as a consequence, a general isolation of individuals; (3) the absence of dramatic social changes in the nation's internal life.

  Milan Kundera

  Book, Writing, Epidemics

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