Isolation Quotes

• The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into smaller states and all-national isolation, not only to bring the nations closer to each other, but also to merge them.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Mankind
  • Aim
  • Socialism

• Love often leads to healing, while fear and isolation breed illness. And our biggest fear is abandonment.

  

  Candace Pert
  • Love
  • Fear
  • Healing

• The new contract between writers and readers is one I'm prepared to sign up to. I've met some fascinating people at events and online. Down with the isolation of writers I say! And long live Twitter.

  

  Sara Sheridan
  • People
  • Long
  • Writing

• Hatred is bred through ignorance. Fear is its father, and isolation its mother. Yet, we are born of empathy and so we hope to return.

  

  Christian Picciolini
  • Fear
  • Ignorance
  • Empathy

• 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
  • Religious
  • Christianity
  • Despair

• There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past.

  

  William Bernbach
  • Past
  • Moments
  • Design

• The studio was connected by a picture window to master control, which was connected in the same way to the announce booth and the editing booth beyond that. She could see the length of the little station and into the hallway, too. And thus she was inducted into the visibility and invisibility of radio, the intimacy and the isolation.

  

  Elizabeth Hay
  • Control
  • Picture
  • Master

• THERE IS A CERTAIN depth of illness that is piercing in its isolation; the only rule of existence is uncertainty, and the only movement is the passage of time. One cannot bear to live through another loss of function, and sometimes friends and family cannot bear to watch. An unspoken, unbridgeable divide may widen. Even if you are still who you were, you cannot actually fully be who you are. Sometimes the people you know well withdraw, and then even the person you know as yourself begins to change.

  

  Elisabeth Tova Bailey
  • Change
  • Watch
  • Illness

• THERE IS A CERTAIN depth of illness that is piercing in its isolation; the only rule of existence is uncertainty, and the only movement is the passage of time.

  

  Elisabeth Tova Bailey
  • Movement
  • Illness
  • Passage

• I was born on a tiny cot in southwestern Massachusetts during World War II. A sickly child, I turned to photography to overcome my loneliness and isolation.

  

  William Wegman
  • Children
  • Photography
  • Loneliness

• Mirabelle replaces the absent friends with books and television mysteries of the PBS kind. The books are mostly nineteenth-century novels in which women are poisoned or are doing the poisoning. She does not read these books as a romantic lonely hearts turning pages in the isolation of her room, not at all. She is instead an educated spirit with a sense of irony. She loves the gloom of these period novels, especially as kitsch, but beneath it all she finds that a part of her indentifies with all that darkness.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Heart
  • Book
  • Kind

• 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 Led Zeppelin
  • People
  • Sense
  • Security

• Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.

  

  Jules Verne
  • Pain
  • Solitude
  • Human Endurance

• Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Man
  • Isolation
  • Sum

• Isolation is a way to know ourselves.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Way
  • Isolation

• For writers, so much is done in isolation. It can be easy to feel detached, or to get a little lost along the way.

  

  Brad Listi
  • Writers
  • Isolation
  • Detached

• I have learned so much more about Islam in conversation with Jews and Christians and Hindus. I feel like that is part of the beauty of life on Earth - that we discover and develop what it means to be Muslim or Christian or Jewish not in isolation from others, but precisely in relationship with others.

  

  Eboo Patel
  • Relationship
  • Christian
  • Learned

• 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
  • Isolation

• You’ll understand one day how murderous, how suicidal, individual isolation is. You’ll cry then, suffocated by our culture’s cannibal loving.

  

  Attia Hosain
  • Culture
  • Loving
  • Isolation

• Writing is a solitary activity, it requires isolation and silence.

  

  Dacia Maraini
  • Writing
  • Silence
  • Isolation

• Isolation disfigures men Who think their separateness superior.

  

  Brian Patten
  • Men
  • Isolation
  • Separateness

• Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Human
  • Loneliness
  • Satisfy

• No matter what you are dealing with in life, be it resentment or regret, bitterness or sadness, anger or apathy, hatred or hesitation, depression or disempowerment, disappointment or other destructive anxieties, painful envy or emotional turmoil, fear of isolation or thoughts of failure, keep in mind that if you are positive, positivity will find you and embrace you!

  

  Widad Akrawi
  • Failure
  • Disappointment
  • Embrace

• We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.

  

  Robert Zemeckis
  • Function
  • Isolation

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