Isolation Quotes - Page 15

• I am interested in the loneliness and isolation that we can feel when we hide feelings we are ashamed of, especially if they concern people that we love.

  Torill Kove

  Loneliness, People, Feelings

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I initially wanted to tell 'Oscillate Wildly' story because it wasn't one I had heard or seen before. The invisibility piece resonated most. Somewhere over the past couple of years I realized that I've essentially been making movies for my teenage self who struggled with isolation and my own brand of invisibility living in rural Ohio.

  Travis Mathews

  Couple, Teenage, Past

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• There were several parallels between Jonestown and Escuela Caribe. Both places used isolation to control a large group of people and censored their communication with the outside world so their loved ones wouldn't know about the rampant physical abuse and misery of the residents. I think the worst fallout, in both cases, was the living in constant fear, witnessing other residents get assaulted and worrying that you'd be next. That's where Post Traumatic Stress Disorder comes from.

  Julia Scheeres

  Stress, Communication, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My Dad used to say that the balance of the world relied on all of the monks who were living outside of society in creative isolation. I don't quite understand the ascetic life or the private life or the monastic private life. But I definitely understand privacy's value.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Dad, Creative, Balance

  "It’s Sufjan Stevens’ Way or the Highway". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2009.

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• I like the varying rhythm of being a writer that you have a period of being in complete isolation where it's just you and the book and your screenplay and no-one can read it.

  Patrick Marber

  Book, Periods, Rhythm

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• There was no singles problem until singles got so single-minded that they stopped wasting time with anyone ineligible. Before that, it was understood that one of society's main tasks was matchmaking. People with lifelong friendships and ties to local nonprofessional organizations did not have to fear that isolation would accompany retirement, old age, or losing a spouse. Overburdened householders could count on the assistance not only of their own extended families, but of the American tradition of neighborliness.

  Judith Martin

  Retirement, Organization, Ties

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• Sometimes a rural life - without agricultural culture, community, or land - it means that you're a very long drive from everything. It's a big cultural isolation in terms of any kind of schooling where you could get exposed to things that might push the positive buttons. The geography of where people find themselves situated, both in metropolises and in the heartland, really starts to matter.

  Debra Granik

  Heart, Mean, Land

  "Debra Granik on "poverty porn," self-worth, and her new film, Stray Dog". Interview with Sam Fragoso, www.avclub.com. July 11, 2015.

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• Isolation from power makes men look for a mob in which they can be strong.

  Herbert Gold

  Strong, Men, Looks

  Herbert Gold (2018). “The Magic Will: Stories and Essays”, p.240, Routledge

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• Fear does its best work in isolation. Courage wears the face of your ability to love and be loved. Breakthrough happens when you discover your self-worth had nothing to do with what you looked like.

  Lynn Jones

  Cancer, Self Worth, Over You

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• I feel closer to my country than ever. There is no longer a feeling of lonesome isolation. Instead-peace. I return without fearing prejudice that once bothered me . . . for I know that people practice cruel bigotry in their ignorance, not maliciously

  Paul Robeson

  Country, Ignorance, Practice

  Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge

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• As a people, we value family, education and success. Hunger is an enemy to all three. Scientific studies have demonstrated that even brief periods of hunger can permanently inhibit a child's mental, emotional and physical growth. Kids who are hungry do poorly in school and are unlikely to grow into productive adults. For families, experiencing hunger means living in a world of isolation and shame. Caring citizens must put an end to this disgrace.

  Ted Danson

  Children, School, Mean

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• Fears don't exist in isolation. They tend to rise and fall depending on what people think they can do about them.

  Peter Beinart

  Fear, Fall, Thinking

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• Poverty, I realized, wasn't only a lack of financial resources; it was isolation from the kind of people that could help you make more of yourself.

  Keith Ferrazzi

  People, Empowerment, Poverty

  Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz (2014). “Never Eat Alone, Expanded and Updated: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time”, p.16, Crown Business

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• Moral progress is a process of isolation; the mountain tops are lonely.

  Austin O'Malley

  Lonely, Progress, Mountain

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• There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past.

  William Bernbach

  Past, Design, Research

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• Humor is an antidote to isolation.

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Laughter, Antidote

  Elizabeth Janeway (1987). “Improper behavior”, William Morrow

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• It's shocking that so many children still live in fear as a result of violence in the home, and don't know who to turn to for help and support. As a child survivor of domestic violence I can remember the fear and isolation. I'm delighted to support the Hideout, the new Women's Aid website for children and young people. I know it could have made a real difference to me and will provide great comfort and support to thousands of children.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Children, Real, Home

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

  Laura Marling

  Who I Am, Needs, Left Alone

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In the isolation of his clear, cold intellect, the sceptic abides in a glacial and spectral universe. No glow from the affections lights up the frost and shadow of the grave. He feels no prophecy in the thrill of the human heart-in the incompleteness of nature. He believes merely in things tangible, and sees only in the daytime. He will not confess the authenticity of that paler light of faith which was meant to shine when the sunshine of reason falls short, and the firmament of mystery is over our heads.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Faith, Fall, Believe

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• Regarded in isolation, an idea may be quite insignificant, and venturesome in the extreme, but it may acquire importance from an idea which follows it; perhaps, in a certain collocation with other ideas, which may seem equally absurd, it may be capable of furnishing a very serviceable link.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Ideas, Judgement, Connections

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• If everything in the universe depends upon everything else in a fundamental way, it might be impossible to get close to a full solution by investigating parts of the problem in isolation.

  Stephen Hawking

  Fundamentals, Might, Way

  Stephen W. Hawking (1990). “A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes”, Bantam

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• I feel like when we talk about post-apocalyptic themes that's what we're really talking about. We're always returning to this sense of being alone in a strange new place where all is bleak and all is lost. And it is this sense of isolation that permeates the whole album. I wanted to go into the balance between fear and transcendence.

  Colin Stetson

  Talking, Balance, Albums

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• Man is like an island set in isolation in a fathomless sea enveloped by darkness, saying that the loneliness his self knows is so utterly absolute because even he knows not his self completely.

  Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

  Loneliness, Men, Islands

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• I could definitely empathize with the character, with the feelings of helplessness - if only the desperation and the feeling of isolation.

  Randy Harrison

  Character, Feelings, Desperation

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• No design can exist in isolation. It is always related, sometimes in very complex ways, to an entire constellation of influencing situations and attitudes. What we call a good design is one which achieves integrity – that is, unity or wholeness – in balanced relation to its environment.

  George Nelson

  Attitude, Integrity, Design

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