It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.
I am greatly pleased with the public, authentic isolation in which we two, you and I, now find ourselves. It is wholly in accord with our attitude and our principles.
Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from their contemporaries. Each man is for ever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart.
National isolation breeds national neurosis.
Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.
Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.
Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
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.
There's a real purity in New Zealand that doesn't exist in the states. It's actually not an easy thing to find in our world anymore. It's a unique place because it is so far away from the rest of the world. There is a sense of isolation and also being protected.
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.
We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.
At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
Isolation is a dream killer.
A person is a person through other persons; you can't be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.
The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self- dependence must give each individual the right to choose his own surroundings.
Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained.
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