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Isolation Quotes

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The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation.
Bruce D. Perry

Authors on Isolation Quotes: Toni Morrison Gary Chapman Alfred Korzybski Charles Eisenstein Ralph Waldo Emerson Mason Cooley Hannah Arendt Elizabeth Janeway Luke Ford Annie Lennox Jamie Linden Deepak Chopra David Byrne Idries Shah Philibert Joseph Roux Virginia Woolf Mireille Guiliano Albert Camus Glenn Gould Adam Arkin Robert Zemeckis Patrick Marber Salman Rushdie Judith Viorst Charlotte Bronte Kat Duff Ellen Glasgow Timothy Gowers P. C. Cast Anton Corbijn Marlee Matlin Charles Dudley Warner Ignacy Jan Paderewski
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Isolation is a way to know ourselves.
Franz Kafka

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Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness.
Glenn Gould

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A person is a person through other persons; you can't be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.
Desmond Tutu

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Recovery can only take place within the context of relationships; it cannot occur in isolation.
Judith Lewis Herman

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Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained.
Roger Williams

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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
Carlos Salinas de Gortari

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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

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

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

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

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Isolation is a blind alley....Nothing on the planet grows except by convergence.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic.
Paul Bowles

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Art and architecture - all the arts - do not have to exist in isolation.
Donald Judd

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

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This is a fact: Strength in the pursuit of peace is no vice; isolation in the pursuit of security is no virtue.
George H. W. Bush

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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist.
Allan Sloan

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The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into smaller states and all-national isolation, not only to bring the nations closer to each other, but also to merge them.
Vladimir Lenin

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Being the “best you can be” is really only possible when you are deeply connected to another. Splendid isolation is for planets, not people.
Sue Johnson

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Isolation is devastating to the human psyche.
Gary Chapman

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Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists.
Carlos Fuentes

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Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.
Philibert Joseph Roux

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At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
Boris Pasternak

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

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Isolation is the worst possible counselor.
Miguel de Unamuno

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Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with others, are refuges from what man most dreads: isolation.
Erich Fromm

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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

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Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your marriage, you will begin to drift away from your mate.
Dennis Rainey

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No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.
Daisaku Ikeda

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Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking about; and (2) There is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.
Alfred Korzybski

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The walls of isolation are not as solid as your suffering makes them seem.
Deepak Chopra

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To dream in isolation can be properly splendid to be sure; but to dream in company seems to me infinitely preferable.
Clive Barker

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National isolation breeds national neurosis.
Hubert H. Humphrey

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Success, to me, is helping one person or many people counter the isolation and pseudoconnectivity of our lives by boosting their ability to connect to themselves and to others.
Esther Perel

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Something in our nature cries out to be loved by another. Isolation is devastating to the human psyche. That is why solitary confinement is considered the cruelest of punishments.
Gary Chapman

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What was Dionysus going to go? Send him back to his hellish isolation? He’d been there, done that, and had the Ozzy T-shirt to prove it.’ (Styxx)
Sherrilyn Kenyon

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I think any show has the potential to bring about social change. I do not think any one show in isolation can do it. I think it is a groundswell that needs to continue to be bolstered from all ends.
Trevor Noah

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Some system of authority is a requirement of all communal living, and it is only the man dwelling in isolation who is not forced to respond, through defiance or submission, to the commands of others.
Stanley Milgram

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A great love is an absolute isolation and an absolute absorption.
Ouida

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I'm the only one in my family who is deaf, and there are still conversations that go around me that I miss out on. And I ask what's going on, and I have to ask to be included. But I'm not going to be sad about it. I don't live in sad isolation. It's just a situation I'm used to.
Marlee Matlin

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Psychotherapy is a cyclical process from isolation into relationship. It is cyclical because the patient, in terror of existential isolation, relates deeply and meaningfully to the therapist and then, strengthened by this encounter, is led back again to a confrontation with existential isolation.
Irvin D. Yalom

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I want to make clear only that words are not the things spoken about, and that there is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.
Alfred Korzybski

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Photography has taken me from isolation.
Anton Corbijn

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Sanctions kept us on our toes, it made us realize that we were drifting into a situation of growing isolation so I wouldn't go as far as to say sanctions didn't play a role but if I were to put on a scale, the issues of conscience played a much greater role than the sanctions. We could have withstood sanctions for many more years. We became experts in circumventing sanctions... So sanctions played a role but it wasn't the major role.
Frederik Willem de Klerk

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

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

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Women can also be creative in total isolation. I know excellent women artists who do original work without any response to speak of. Maybe they are used to lack of feedback. Maybe they are tougher.
Elaine de Kooning

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Most ideas are born and lost in isolation.
Scott Belsky

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Isolation is a big part of songwriting.
Natalie Imbruglia