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And my inability to share this anger with anybody in the lobby aroused in me a profound sense of isolation. - Toru Okada — Haruki Murakami

Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing. — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain. — Paul Cezanne

He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, Good fences make good neighbors. — Robert Frost

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man. — Thomas Carlyle

do not heal in isolation. Connecting with others is how we develop compassion for others and for ourselves. — Desmond Tutu

The great writings interact with one another. They cannot be read in isolation.. — Richard J. Foster

agreeable in the sense of floating there in infinite isolation and leisure that it was — Henry James

Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self. — Jerzy Kosinski

I know that hunger for self-isolation, it eats u up. Disconnecting yourself from external world and longing to disappear. — Shreya Gupta

I stood lonely enough, but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed: it did not oppress me much. — Charlotte Bronte

The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die. — David Foster Wallace

It has been raining here for ten years.I keep an accurate record of time and can state this with no fear of contradiction. — Alastair Bruce

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. — Eleonora Duse

Our hearts break, and take us out of relationships that are too painful for us — John Geddes

I want to know what you're thinking, you want to know what I'm thinking. But we're alone. In our own minds. We're trapped in this sort of isolation. — Wayne Coyne

People who are unhappy in relationships carry about them a distinct air of discontent and isolation. — Patricia Cornwell

No matter how you look at it, one person cannot be evaluated and paid in isolation of budgets. — Steven Sinofsky

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

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

A caterpillar must endure a season of isolation before it turns into a butterfly. Embrace the time you have alone, it will only make you stronger. — Steven Aitchison

All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd. — Friedrich Nietzsche

It talked about the isolation felt by gifted young people whose social skills could not keep up with their intellects and who were often ostracized. — Dan Brown

The power of storytelling is to free us from isolation, shame, and whatever the situation. — Patricia McCormick

Peace reigned in silence, inside and out, in isolation and exhaustion. — Steven Erikson

Halls are full of strangers, even when you recognize the faces. — Jayme K.

I guess there are a lot of people out there that think they're supposed to define themselves in isolation, but that's not necessarily the case. — Feist

I tell myself I'm fine on my own, but am I? No friends to fall back on, no relationships, no support. Left to my own devices, I have no devices. — Jael McHenry

To me, that's the ultimate isolation - to be separated from my own mind. — James Patterson

Humans were not meant for isolation. WE were not meant for loneliness. — S. Jae-Jones

Without hesitation, Dove chose the nowhere road. For that was the only place, in his heart of hearts, that he really wanted to go. — Nelson Algren

Helping reproductive services doesn't just help women in isolation. It helps men just as much. — Tucker Max

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

I think, if you have enough inner resources, then you can live in isolation for long periods of time and not feel diminished by it. — Aung San Suu Kyi

I am very near to madness. I imagine my isolation, and I go mad inside, a delirium of doubts and fears. — Anais Nin

An individual poor person is an isolated island by himself and herself. IT can end that isolation overnight. — Muhammad Yunus

Bad habits are demons that often push us into isolation because they know that in our loneliness they stand little chance of being overcome. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Part of the problem is that people at our school don't listen. They just put on the headphones and tune out the world. It's intimidating. — Alexandra Robbins

My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation. — Luke Ford

I had never been much interested in Pluto, too many facts and too much isolation. — Robert A. Heinlein

Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole. — Rabindranath Tagore

Moral progress is a process of isolation; the mountain tops are lonely. — Austin O'Malley

There were a thousand secrets in her eyes, a thousand wounds. A lifetime of distrust and betrayal. Isolation. How did one overcome such things? — Christine Feehan

Maybe prisoners in isolation feel what I feel: they hate their guards, but a beating now and then is at least some human contact. — Hugh Howey

We don't heal in isolation, but in community. — S. Kelley Harrell

The Human Condition has a vacancy ... a transient declaring It's Self The Victor! Till death do us part in This War for human isolation. — Rosemarie Yusen

It was the apparent isolation of the place that touched her; it was somewhere she felt she could be separated from the rest of the world. — Erica James

They were probably whispering their secrets but how would I know? — Chrissie Perry

A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope. — Dean Koontz

Isolation filled with loud silence is a writer's paradise. I wonder how far north toward the Mediterranean must I travel to get there. — Terry A. O'Neal

She could be lively only in the midst of life; in isolation she dwindled to a shadow. — Stefan Zweig

He knelt among the shadows and felt his isolation bitterly. They were savages it was true; but they were human. — William Golding

People don't live like islands. — Alexandra Bracken

Something people don't recognize is that being on the space station is probably a lot like being in some kind of confinement - like isolation. — Scott Kelly

Sometimes isolation can be shared. — Ken Grimwood

Being connected to everything has disconnected us from ourselves and the preciousness of this present moment. — L.M. Browning

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

You are the salt of the earth. But remember that salt is useful when in association, but useless in isolation. — Israelmore Ayivor

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

The isolation must be their desire; I couldn't imagine any door that wouldn't be opened by that degree of beauty. — Stephenie Meyer

When you do not understand the language being spoken, you have too options. You can struggle against the isolation, or you can give yourself up to it. — Jodi Picoult

Isolation is the dream killer. — Barbara Sher

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

No practice exists in isolation. — Idries Shah

If I'm all alone, then the standard for sanity is up to me entirely. — Susan Wiggs

Macedonia as a whole tended to remain in isolation from the rest of Greece ... — Peter Green

It begins with isolation - demons always inhabit desolate places ... — John Geddes

I hope the seeds I have sown will be taken up by those who will follow me because the journey I have begun cannot be undertaken in isolation. — Evelyn Glennie

Isolation is the cruelest of punishments, and it had never occurred to me that I was something less than human because I wasn't a man. — Patricia Cornwell

Nothing exists in isolation; there is a purpose for everything — Sunday Adelaja

Now, more than ever, we need to connect the dots between climate, poverty, energy, food and water. These issues cannot be addressed in isolation. — Ban Ki-moon

In London, Man is the most secret animal on earth. — Laurie Lee

Loneliness is not a result of physical isolation; you're only lonely the day you realize that nobody shares your opinions. — Sabah Carrim

Find a part of yourself hidden in the twilight. — Fennel Hudson

Each thing that obeys law [has] the glory and isolation of the anarchist, — G.K. Chesterton

Or, in truth, eventually, though I still noticed, the callouses on my spirit prevented wounds (p.75). — Donna Jo Napoli

Some books are serials, not to be mistaken for anything else. 'The Two Towers,' for example, ought never to be read in isolation. — Edward M. Lerner

When people wear you out, spend some time in isolation with Allah and your relationship with Him will improve as well as with the people. — Omar Suleiman

How much more the seeker of abstract truth, who needs periods of isolation, and rapt concentration, and almost a going out of thebody to think! — Ralph Waldo Emerson

We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation. — Robert Zemeckis

I'm always writing. It's kind of a curse: You never stop. But I need isolation to write. So the real meat of the material comes when I'm off the road. — Taylor Momsen

Love is just a mask. All we search is a Comfort, Acceptance. Consolation. Affirmation. Assurance. Indulgence. Isolation. Absolution and Remission. — Sarvesh Jain

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

Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he'd always identified with poets. — Nicholas Sparks

primary importance of touch is as an antidote to isolation and despair. — David Kuhl

We love as soon as we learn to distinguish a separate 'you' and 'me.' Love is our attempt to assuage the terror and isolation of that separateness. — Judith Viorst

But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness. — Megan Whalen Turner

Fear and Bigotry are bred fom isolation and ignorance.
-Shekinah — P.C. Cast

Up here on the Ice each of us is singular, isolate, I as cut off from those like me, from my society, and its rules, as he from his. — Ursula K. Le Guin

When they speak of Hell there's something they miss there's a worse place to be and it's called the Abyss. — Stanley Victor Paskavich

The course of urban development in America is pushing the individual toward that line seperating proud independence from pitiable isolation. — Ray Oldenburg

A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself. — Will Cuppy

Art and architecture
all the arts
do not have to exist in isolation, — Donald Judd

Writing is a solitary activity, it requires isolation and silence. — Dacia Maraini

I see the cliffs, glaciers, torrents, valleys of Switzerland - I mark the long winters and the isolation. — Walt Whitman

Isolation is a way to know ourselves — Franz Kafka

Caught in your youniverse again? Try reaching out to the one besides you! — Stefan Emunds

The evangelical assertion of the new Word was not intended to make man fit into the world, but to verify his isolation — John Lamb Lash

I am not an outsider. I am an insider who discovered that everyone else had gone out. — Stephen J. Day

Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation. — Wislawa Szymborska