Isolation Quotes

The pain of sexual frustration, of repressed tenderness, of denied curiosity, of isolation in the ego, of greed, suppressed rebellion, of hatred poisoning all love and generosity, permeates our sexuality. What we love we destroy. (Germaine Greer)
I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people. View quote
Kofi Annan
No problem exists in isolation, one must first reduce it to its basic components, then tackle each component in turn. View quote
John le Carré
Isolation is nice,” thought Brant as she drifted closer to sleep. "It's a shame you can't share it with anybody. View quote
George Alec Effinger
Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
If you want to end your isolation, you must be honest about what you want at a core level and decide to go after it. View quote
Martha Beck
The effects of 6 months of total social isolation were so devastating and debilitating that we had assumed initially that 12 months of isolation would not produce any additional decrement. This assumption proved to be false; 12 months of isolation almost obliterated the animals socially. View quote
Harry Harlow
If a man were living in isolation his income would be literally his product. Make him the monarch and owner of an island, and the fruits that he raises and the clothing that he makes constitute, in themselves, his income. This ceases to be true when trading begins. View quote
John Bates Clark
There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world. View quote
A. R. Ammons
People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family. View quote
Keith Henson
Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all heir because we are individuals, can participate in a relationship that, for the moment, is not of two isolated selves but a union. (Rollo May)
Our "society" is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units. Desperately insecure, fearing his woman will leave him if she's exposed to other men or to anything remotely resembling life, the male seeks to isolate her from other men and from what little civilization there is, so he moves her out to the suburbs, a collection of self-absorbed couples and their kids. Isolation, further, enables him to try to maintain his pretense of being an individual by being a "rugged individualist", a loner, equating non-co-operation and solitariness with individuality. View quote
Valerie Solanas
A problem never exists in isolation; it is surrounded by other problems in space and time. The more of the context of a problem that a scientist can comprehend, the greater are his chances of finding a truly adequate solution. View quote
Russell L. Ackoff
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. View quote
Louise Brooks
Contact with like-minded painters – a group means a great deal to me: nothing comes in isolation. We have worked out our ideas largely by talking them through. Shutting myself away in the country, for instance, would do nothing for me. One depends on one's surroundings. And so the exchange with other artists – and especially the collaboration with Lueg and Polke – matters a lot to me: it is part of the input that I need. View quote
Gerhard Richter
Authentic thinking, thinking that is concerned about reality, does not take place in ivory tower isolation, but only in communication. If it is true that thought has meaning only when generated by action upon the world, the subordination of students to teachers becomes impossible. View quote
Paulo Freire
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. View quote
Jimmy Page
Liberty is the possibility of isolation. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
Isolation is the worst possible counselor. View quote
Miguel de Unamuno
The Sage of Toronto... spent several decades marveling at the numerous freedoms created by a "global village" instantly and effortlessly accessible to all. Villages, unlike towns, have always been ruled by conformism, isolation, petty surveillance, boredom and repetitive malicious gossip about the same families. Which is a precise enough description of the global spectacle's present vulgarity. View quote
Guy Debord
Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen. (George Orwell)
Every human being lived behind an impenetrable wall of choking mist within which no other but he existed. Occasionally there were the dim signals from deep within the cavern in which another man was located - so that each might grope toward the other. Yet because they did not know one another, and could not understand one another, and dared not trust one another, and felt from infancy the terrors and insecurity of that ultimate isolation - there was the hunted fear of man for man, the savage rapacity of man toward man. View quote
Isaac Asimov
The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation. View quote
Steven Pressfield
I would much rather sit, dimmed by inattention, and study the atmosphere and the silence and dance between people, but often times I'm not offered this privilege. The necessity for isolation, and the striving for attention is the only contradiction I find in being a writer and an actress. View quote
Masiela Lusha
Isolation offered its own form of companionship. View quote
Jhumpa Lahiri