Top 151 Isolation Quotes

Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

I walk out my front door in New York and I’m out on the street and there are people everywhere. L.A. is so much more spread out, so it’s really easy in L.A. to have a little more isolation and to just not see as many people.

This way of working on individual songs in isolation from other songs is actually how we’ve always kind of done it.

Greater technological connectivity makes the world wider, and the walls of isolation – thinner.

Suicide was such a formative band for me, so influential in the development of my taste. They’re one of those bands that operated in absolute isolation for so long that they developed a completely unique world view.

It’s important to have quiet time and isolation.

I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.

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.

My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.

People who live in L.A. don’t like to leave their homes because they have so much space. They have the nice kitchens and a cook and a pool. When you live in L.A., there is a sense of isolation in terms of raising a family.

Fixing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in isolation, without looking at the big picture, would be short-sighted.

Remember you don’t do anything in isolation.

Earth’s dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.

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.

The one thing I have never been comfortable with in the modern presentation of character – and it may have changed, this is some years ago – is their total isolation from the rest of the world. It’s all about superheroes interacting with superheroes. There’s no normal life. No normal people.

So many writers grew up in tortured isolation, in revolt against their families. I and my sister were in a house where writing was considered the worthiest thing you could try to do.

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.

When I wrote my novel, ‘The Ministry of Special Cases,’ I couldn’t even brush my teeth. I had to write in isolation from everything else. I thought a play would take away from my fiction, but the more projects I work on, the more time I have.

I was not popular in school, and I was definitely not a ladies’ man. And I had a very painful adolescence, because it was all very strange to me. It wasn’t like I got beat up, but the humiliation and isolation, and the existential ‘God, I exist, and nobody cares’ of being a teenager were extremely pronounced for me.

What a crazy coincidence that the teaching of Christ sees to be so compatible with late-era capitalism, suburban isolation, rampant consumerism. And so I am not ever surprised when I see evangelicals contort themselves to justify supporting Donald Trump.

If a man were living in isolation his income would be literally his product. Make him the monarch and owner of an island, and the fruits that he raises and the clothing that he makes constitute, in themselves, his income. This ceases to be true when trading begins.

When you lose work, the meaning and purpose of life are taken away from you, and isolation can set in.

My go-to protective thing is isolation. It’s turn off the phone, don’t speak to anyone, lie in bed all day, and then maybe go out at night and do the same thing over again.

In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.

The Israeli public has been brainwashed into believing that its global isolation stems from delegitimization and anti-Semitism.

In seeking to counter challenges such as terrorist threats, hostile state activity, or nuclear proliferation, we cannot work in isolation.

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.

National isolation breeds national neurosis.

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

All these dismal things that are going on in the world – the isolation and the sickness and the governments and the pollution – it’s so frightful, over the whole world.

The worst cruelty that can be inflicted on a human being is isolation.

I bought myself a bike in isolation and a helmet and I love it. It’s built my confidence up because not everyone is confident in exercise.

The question is: How are you able to organize your information, your tasks, and get stuff done spanning those different roles? Nobody lives in isolation.

I think in the case of horror, it’s a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.

If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you’ll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.

You cannot judge the performance of an actor in isolation. A performance becomes good because of so many factors, including the other actors.

The Internet has made some phenomenal breakthroughs that are still only poorly understood in terms of changing people’s ideas of us and them. If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite.

We do nothing for children between the ages of zero and five. And we seem to be quite happy to have children growing up in not just poverty, which wouldn’t be so bad, but isolation, lack of people around them, lack of support, lack of ability to go out and play in the dirt.

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

There’s a great deal of scientific evidence that social connectedness is a very strong protector of emotional well-being, and I think there’s no question that social isolation has greatly increased in our culture in, say, the past 50 years, past 100 years.

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

We can’t afford to live in isolation, and we need to teach our kids that the things that they do not only matter to others far away but impact others who live far away, and there are ripples of effect.

For anyone who can only handle about 12-minutes-per-day of anything news related before needing to retreat into isolation, allow me to recommend spending those 12 minutes listening to the opening monologue of ‘The Rush Limbaugh Show.’

There were times after the accident when I felt very lonely – burns survivors can feel terrible isolation. I wanted to create something that connects us all together, so that was the idea behind the Katie Piper Foundation.

Civil war is a national crisis and also a private trauma: We suffer it collectively and in isolation.

I feel that our attitude to our borders is wrong; it’s the first time that an awful lot of people think you can and should just close your border and remain in this splendid isolation.

I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity.

Too much of what is called ‘education’ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

I’m not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.

Quite simply, our isolation from nature has become isolation from God’s Word. Cocooned in our manmade world of climate-controlled homes, cars, subways, and high-rises, we’re finding it easier to live as practical atheists.

With technology, there is so much isolation with people now, that there are very few places where you can connect.

The smallest wound or pain of the ego is examined under a microscope as if it were of eternal importance. The artist considers his isolation, his subjectivity, his individualism almost holy.

Isolation is the one sure way to human happiness.

You don’t work in isolation anymore. Anybody can write a song and put it up on the Internet the next day.

I need to be very isolated to write, and unfortunately isolation is often quite difficult to find. My ideal writing environment would be a country house hotel in the middle of nowhere, with full room service.