Quotes about Isolation

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It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has — John Joseph Powell, The Secret of Staying in Love
I have such a fear of finding another like myself, and such a desire to find one! I am so utterly lonely, but I also hav — Anaïs Nin, House of Incest
When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity — Criss Jami, Killosophy
If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence fr — Stephen Colbert
It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—th — Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot
Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget it, or bear to be w — Matthew Lewis, The Monk
A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
No man, proclaimed Donne, is an Island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, drowned in each othe — Neil Gaiman, American Gods
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed aw — John Donne, No man is an island – A selection from the prose
Loneliness clarifies. Here silence standsLike heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken, Hidden weeds flower, neglected waters — Philip Larkin, The Whitsun Weddings
Thus weary of the world, away she hies,And yokes her silver doves; by whose swift aidTheir mistress mounted through the — William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis
I was free with every road as my home. No limitations and no commitments. But then summer passed and winter came and I f — Charlotte Eriksson, Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving
In order not to fall into isolation we have to be established in the house of God and focus on serving Him — Sunday Adelaja
Today, one must either be isolated and cut off, or a carefully guarded, affluent drop-out, to allow one's children to pl — Ivan Illich, The Right to Useful Unemployment and Its Professional Enemies
Over time as most people fail the survivor's exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw from relationships. — Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
I found, increasingly, that I did not particularly care and I tried to fake a little kindness, a little sweetness, tried — Catherine Lacey, Nobody Is Ever Missing
At the exact time that our society embraces shaming, blaming, judgment, and rejection, it also holds acceptance and belo — Brené Brown
It has been raining here for ten years.I keep an accurate record of time and can state this with no fear of contradictio — Alastair Bruce, Wall Of Days
You can be the most productive person in your area of your calling if you can just isolate yourself and learn to convert — Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?
In a world as noisy as ours, only those who can isolate themselves will be able to think better and meditate better and — Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?