Best 399 quotes in «isolation quotes» category

I guess Im attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And its why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes are somewhat higher.

I like the varying rhythm of being a writer that you have a period of being in complete isolation where it's just you and the book and your screenplay and no-one can read it.

I'm not trying to be ridiculous or funny, but it was rather pleasant to find yourself in isolation, in solitary.

I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone.

Isolating mechanisms are biological properties of individuals that prevent the interbreeding of populations that are actually or potentially sympatric.

Isolation, but it's a good vulnerability. Humbling. I actually seek out solitude.

Isolation and belonging are not absolute, provable states of being. They arise completely out of the nothingness within you; you measure their dimensions against your own firm or shaky sense of who you are.

Isolation is a dream killer.

Indifference is isolation. In difference is texture and wonder.

Isolation from power makes men look for a mob in which they can be strong.

Isolation is the dream killer.

Isolation is the worst possible counselor.

It's really the sense of isolation, more than anything, realizing how tiny you are down in this big vast black unknown and unexplored place.

I think any show has the potential to bring about social change. I do not think any one show in isolation can do it. I think it is a groundswell that needs to continue to be bolstered from all ends.

It takes isolation and solitude for me to write.

I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation.

Many tribal peoples consider illness to be one of the most reliable sources of revelation. Many of the practices that traditional religions impose upon seekers-abstinence, isolation, stillness-are practices that illness imposes upon us, so it is in a sense a cocoon that allows revelation to unfold.

Liberty is the possibility of isolation.

Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained.

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.

It's so difficult to figure out how to offer support and also be honest with someone you love who's in a damaging relationship without making them feel defensive and retreating even further into isolation.

Losing friends and spouses is an inevitable part of aging, and many people have a tendency to go quietly into semi-isolation. Instead, set your intention on expanding and deepening the love in your life.

Mere isolation in an enclosing idea is not a release from conflict.

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.

Most ideas are born and lost in isolation.

National isolation breeds national neurosis.

People buy things in isolation and don't think of how they work together.

One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the isolation of working part-time as a house painter in Henderson County, to Cornell, where everybody was a literary person.

Relationships are all there is. Everything in the universe only exists because it is in relationship to everything else. Nothing exists in isolation. We have to stop pretending we are individuals that can go it alone

Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation.

Poverty is not simply having no money - it is isolation, vulnerability, humiliation and mistrust.

Recovery can only take place within the context of relationships; it cannot occur in isolation.

So if North Korea continues present isolation, then with such economic difficulties the North Korean government must meet a very serious situation in the future.

Self-absorption intensifies isolation, but permits it to go unnoticed.

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

Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.

Since social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my thoughts create rifts as much as they unite, since my words establish contacts by being spoken and create isolation by remaining unspoken, since an immense moat separates the subjective certitude that I have for myself from the objective reality that I represent to others, since I never stop finding myself guilty even though I feel I am innocent.

Thanks to the greatly improved possibility of communication, we overrate its importance. Even stronger, we underrate the importance of isolation.

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.

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.

Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist.

The gift economy represents a shift from consumption to contribution, transaction to trust, scarcity to abundance and isolation to community.

The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.

There is a difference between solitude and isolation. One is connected and one isn't. Solitude replenishes, isolation diminishes.

The isolation, the separateness, is always a part of any utopia.

The statement that although the past can be recorded, the future cannot, is translatable into the statistical statement: Isolated states of order are always postinteraction states, never preinteraction states.

The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation.

The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition.

The goal is not to improve one measurement in isolation. The goal is to reduce operational expenses AND reduce inventories and increase throughput simultaneously.

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.