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Isolation Quotes

The way I felt growing up, which was like an outcast - I was weird, I was a nerd, I read fantasy books - I think a lot of fantasy book readers and a lot of readers and writers in general have that experience of isolation.

Experience Growing Up Book Isolation

I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone.

Alone I Am Me Isolation Need Left

When I'm writing, I'm in an isolation chamber. I'm not one to think about that outside world stuff when I'm writing.

Writing World Isolation Think Stuff

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

Best Progress Isolation Sometimes

It's important to have quiet time and isolation.

Time Isolation Quiet Important

In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a universe that wars on them with winds and seas.

John Millington Synge

Pain People Face Isolation Universe

I've always been attracted to themes of isolation in my work - in my independent work and my DC work.

Work Isolation Independent Always DC

Part of me still feels like I've never had the opportunity to properly express all my earliest influences, so for now, I find isolation to be my biggest influence.

Sturgill Simpson

Opportunity Me Influence Isolation

Seafaring can be lucrative - the elite, such as gas-tanker captains, can earn $100,000 for six months' work - but the isolation is a heavy price to pay.

Work Isolation Price Earn Pay Heavy

Africa should not again face isolation or stigmatisation based on ignorance and unrepresentative imagery.

Ignorance Face Isolation Africa

And with each day that passed, the gulf broadened and my isolation became more accentuated. In such a situation, the discovery that my experience was not unique, that it had also been that of other Spanish intellectuals, became very important for me.

Experience Day Me Isolation Unique

I like the idea of isolation. I like the reality of it. You realize what you are... not that the knowledge is inevitably rewarding.

Knowledge Isolation Reality You Idea

Short of taking monastic vows or trekking into the Kalahari, a freighter passage might just offer what our relentlessly connected age has made difficult, if not impossible: splendid isolation.

Christopher Buckley

Age Impossible Isolation Short Just

I think, if you have enough inner resources, then you can live in isolation for long periods of time and not feel diminished by it.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Live Time Isolation Think Enough

We feel no isolation. But, having said that, I want to emphasise in particular that we do not want to go to extremes and abandon the European and American directions in our foreign economic cooperation.

Isolation American Feel Cooperation

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.

Family Live Sad Me Isolation Go

So if North Korea continues present isolation, then with such economic difficulties the North Korean government must meet a very serious situation in the future.

Future Government Isolation Present

My first two novels featured narrators who were aggressively unattached: They couldn't form any sort of genuine relationship. So I had thoroughly explored the geography of loneliness and isolation.

Relationship Loneliness Isolation Two

I said it's a cold universe and I don't mean that metaphorically. If you go out into space, it's cold. It's really cold and we don't know what's up there. We happen to be in this little pocket where there's a sun. What have we got except love and each other to guard against all that isolation and loneliness?

Love Loneliness Space Sun Isolation

Just because Pluto orbits with many other dwarf planets doesn't change what it is, just as whether an object is a mountain or not doesn't depend on whether it's in a group or in isolation.

Change Mountain Isolation Group Just

Receiving the National Medal of Science is the thrill of a lifetime, but good science does not happen in isolation.

Good Science Isolation Happen Thrill

People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.

Family Change Death People Isolation

There's a tendency to look at investments in isolation. Investors focus on the risk of individual securities.

Daniel Kahneman

Focus Isolation Look Risk Individual

Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people's spirits.

People World Isolation Break Spirits

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