115 Isolation Quotes for You to Enjoy

I think growing up on a farm in a certain amount of isolation, with not a lot of friends nearby, makes you entertain yourself and kind of grows your imagination - being alone is quite good for all that. You make up stories, talk to the animals, let them be an audience, a bunch of cows. Kristen Schaal

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The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation. Louise Brooks

Art Great Soul Thought Face Isolation Films Great Art Consist Kind Does Intense Movement Movements Movies Body Transmitted Descriptive

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

Strong Isolation Uncertain

Israel is following policies which maximise its security threats... policies which choose expansion over security... policies which lead to their moral degradation, their isolation, their delegitimation, as they call it now, and very likely ultimate destruction. That's not impossible. Noam Chomsky

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

Man Isolation Sum Sum Total Total

Remember you don't do anything in isolation. Abdullah II of Jordan

You Remember Isolation Anything

Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation. Abdullah II of Jordan

Justice Isolation Earth Extremists Those Only Division Come Global Vulnerable Intellectual Targets Meaningless Teach Who Satisfaction Dispossessed Violence

In most places and times in human history, babies have had not just one person but lots of people around who were really paying attention to them around, dedicated to them, cared to them, were related to them. I think the big shift in our culture is the isolation in which many children are growing up. Alison Gopnik

History Culture People Big Isolation Think Babies Related Our Had Attention Most Around Were Shift Lots Up Times Person Human Just Children Just One Which Places Them Human History Really Dedicated Paying Who Many Growing Growing Up Cared

At the risk of sounding like a spoilsport, I'd say that pagans have about the same experience of otherness and isolation as anyone else. We're not special in that regard. But this is because the problem of loneliness is almost universal - and that, to my mind, makes it much more serious. Brendan Myers

The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation. C. L. R. James

Home Isolation Other Institutions Contrast Capitalist Stands Last

I would get a lot of writing done if I lived in isolation in a cave under a swamp. Claire Cameron

Writing Isolation Would Cave Lot Get Done Swamp Lived

Composing demands a degree of isolation. Cliff Martinez

Degree Isolation Composing Demands

There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities. Daniel Kahneman

Focus Isolation Securities Risk Tendency Individual Investments Investors Look

I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation. David Blaine

Isolation Idea Obsessed Fasting

The arts don't exist in isolation. David Byrne

Isolation Exist Arts

The idea of the mystic solo, meditating away on his own, is only one path of yoga. Very early on, I chose the path of Life. One path is austerity and isolation, the other is Life. But they both lead to the same place. Donovan

As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation. Earl Blumenauer

Best Progress Sometimes Debate Made Isolation Relations Libya Out Has-Been Diplomatic Diplomatic Relations Imperfect Through Pointed Allow Instead Over Because Been Regimes Engagement

Policymakers, elected and unelected, need to be ever-mindful that the U.S. economy does not exist in isolation. Elaine Chao

Isolation Economy Policymakers Does Exist Elected Need

The Obama administration has been trying out a new policy toward Syria since the day it came to office. The Bush cold shoulder was viewed as a primitive reaction, now to be replaced by sophisticated diplomacy. Outreach would substitute for isolation. Elliott Abrams

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My first two novels featured narrators who were aggressively unattached: They couldn't form any sort of genuine relationship. So I had thoroughly explored the geography of loneliness and isolation. Gillian Flynn

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