The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.
Eleonora Duse
LifeHappinessDoorIsolationCreate
Slowly but surely, I went through different phases of fame, and each rises you further into isolation and alienation.
T. J. Miller
IsolationYouFameThroughDifferent
Isolation is a big part of songwriting.
Natalie Imbruglia
IsolationSongwritingBigPart
The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
Halsey
TimePeopleMeBookIsolationBlack
The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.
C. L. R. James
HomeIsolationContrastLastOther
There's an urgent need to stop reacting to each immediate vexing issue in isolation. Such response often creates unanticipated second-order effects and even more problems for us.
Jim Mattis
ProblemsIsolationStopMoreNeed
Overnight successes are generally years in the making. And most progress is made in isolation, far from the public eye.
Andrew Yang
ProgressEyeIsolationYearsFar
As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.
Ann Brashares
LifeLiveBookIsolationYouBeyond
Nothing that you make in the world exists in isolation from the social and political and ecological dimensions of it.
Trevor Paglen
WorldIsolationPoliticalYouSocial
When I was paralysed by polio at 13, I went into an isolation hospital and couldn't sit up, so I only took liquid food from spouted cups which the masked nurses would bring in and feed to me. I saw my parents only through glass; we couldn't touch.
Mary Berry
FoodParentsMeIsolationGlassUp
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
GreatArtSoulFaceIsolationBody
Our nation's oldest sin and deepest crime is the isolation of minority children - black children, in particular - in schools that are not only segregated but shamefully unequal.
Jonathan Kozol
ChildrenIsolationBlackSinDeepest
Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing.
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
WritingIsolationNiceBreakOff
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
LonelinessExperienceMindIsolation
If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.
Sharon Salzberg
FearHeartLonelinessIsolationYou
Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
Thomas Carlyle
ManIsolationSumSum TotalTotal
Ebola is a humiliating disease that strips you of your dignity. You are removed from family and put into isolation where you cannot even see the faces of those caring for you due to the protective suits - you can only see their eyes.
Kent Brantly
FamilyEyesCaringIsolationSuits
We have to be very careful about acknowledging that the Internet is very good at combatting isolation, but it's not very good at delivering justice.
Hope Jahren
GoodJusticeIsolationInternetVery
I think many people have wonderful stories inside them and the talent to tell those stories. But the writing life, with its isolation and uncertain outcomes, keeps most from the task.
Ellen Ullman
LifeTalentPeopleWritingIsolation
Fixing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in isolation, without looking at the big picture, would be short-sighted.
Bethany McLean
LookingIsolationPictureBig Picture
Coming to know one another based on a shared humanity through dialogue is the key to breaking down the walls of isolation and reversing the decline of life-to-life bonds among human beings.
Vinessa Shaw
WallsIsolationKeyHumanityDown
I don't think the isolation of the American writer is a tradition; it's more that, geographically, he just is isolated, unless he happens to live in New York City. But I don't suppose there's a small town around the country that doesn't have a writer.
Nelson Algren
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The comics work is very slow, and it basically involves working for sometimes years in isolation and not knowing how the work is going to be received.
Adrian Tomine
WorkIsolationSlowNot Knowing
I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity.
Elfriede Jelinek
ProblemsIsolationThinkPolitical
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