Isolation Quotes

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

Isolation is a way to know ourselves.

Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness.

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

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

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

Isolation is a self-defeating dream.

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.

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

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

Isolation is a blind alley....Nothing on the planet grows except by convergence.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist.

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.

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

Isolation is devastating to the human psyche.

Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.

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

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

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

Isolation is the worst possible counselor.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

National isolation breeds national neurosis.

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.

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

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.

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

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)

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.

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.

Photography has taken me from isolation.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Most ideas are born and lost in isolation.

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

Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.