Isolation Quotes - page 12

I think most writers would like a quiet space, complete isolation, in which they control their own time. Spaces of creativity in which there's very little interruption. (Wole Soyinka)
Seneca, in advising retirement, had also warned of dangers. In a dialogue called "On Tranquility of Mind,” he wrote that idleness and isolation could bring to the fore all the consequences of having lived life in the wrong way, consequence that people usually avoided by keeping busy-that is, by continuing to live life in the wrong way. View quote
Sarah Bakewell
Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. 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. View quote
Wisława Szymborska
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. View quote
Wisława Szymborska
A person is a person through other persons; you can't be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships. View quote
Desmond Tutu
In fact I am beginning to see a way to provide a place for my line. I am at last finding my way out of the dead-end of ornament where I found myself one day in 1907! With new strength from my naturalistic études [studies], I may dare to give form to enter my prime real of psychic improvisation again. Bound only very indirectly to an impression of nature, I may again dare to give form to what burdens the soul. To note experiences that can turn themselves into linear compositions even in the blackest night. Here a new creative possibility has long since been awaiting me, which only my frustration resulting from isolation interfered with in the past. Working in this way, my real personality will express itself, will be able to emancipate itself into the greatest freedom. View quote
Paul Klee
Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are. View quote
Salman Rushdie
If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite. View quote
Alex Steffen
The Internet has made some phenomenal breakthroughs that are still only poorly understood in terms of changing people's ideas of us and them. If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite. View quote
Alex Steffen
I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity. View quote
Elfriede Jelinek
The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison. (Nadine Gordimer)
There's a real purity in New Zealand that doesn't exist in the states. It's actually not an easy thing to find in our world anymore. It's a unique place because it is so far away from the rest of the world. There is a sense of isolation and also being protected. View quote
Elijah Wood
My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation. View quote
Luke Ford
I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely. View quote
Paul Theroux
Thus while diminishing returns do exist when industries are broadly defined, no industry can be considered in isolation from all the others, as supply and demand curve analysis requires. View quote
Steve Keen
They abandon themselves credulously to every fanatic scoundrel who speaks to their baser qualities, confirms them in their vices, teaches them nationality means barbarism and isolation. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All my life I've prayed the Lord's Prayer, but I've never prayed, "Give me this day my daily bread." It is always, "Give us this day our daily bread." Bread and life are shared realities. They do not happen in isolation. View quote
Bill Moyers
Civil war is a national crisis and also a private trauma: We suffer it collectively and in isolation. View quote
Hisham Matar
Be aware that money is one of the central issues to many people's lives. Therefore, it is linked strongly with people's perception of themselves and the world. Generosity or greed, openness or isolation, warmth or coldness - how people behave in other areas will be reflected in their attitude towards money. View quote
Margrit Kennedy
The question is: How are you able to organize your information, your tasks, and get stuff done spanning those different roles? Nobody lives in isolation. View quote
Satya Nadella
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)
It is an extraordinary event, a monstrous event, an event which stands in singular and sinister isolation. View quote
Winston Churchill
His philosophy of Satyagraha is both a personal and a social struggle to realize the Truth, which he identifies as God, the Absolute Morality. He seeks this Truth, not in isolation, self-centeredly, but with the people. View quote
Nelson Mandela
No one component of a film can have any meaning in isolation: it is the film that is the work of art. View quote
Andrei Tarkovsky
I remember when I got a new device for my computer. I connected it to the landline phone plug(!), and the device called another device and sang a robot love song to it. That made the devices connect, and I could go online and exchange messages. That was one of the most important things that ever happened to me, breaking my isolation. It helped me to reach out to other folks all around the globe. Communication is key in nerd culture. But beware if that communication fails. You can create toxic troll wastelands! Not even robot love songs can help you with that! View quote
Johannes Grenzfurthner