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Isolation Quotes

Distance, felt in different directions.

Music is described here as constant company against isolation, whether the goal is companionship or simply being left alone with one's thoughts. Broader concerns about isolation on a national or artistic scale echo through our Loneliness collection.

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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.

Quotes by Adwoa Aboah

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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.

Quotes by Adrian Tomine

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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.

Quotes by Adam Mansbach

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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.

Quotes by Adam Arkin

Alone Quotes

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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.

Quotes by Adam Arkin

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Remember you don't do anything in isolation.

Quotes by Abdullah II of Jordan

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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.

Quotes by Abdullah II of Jordan

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There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.

Quotes by A. R. Ammons

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I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.

Quotes by Zbigniew Brzezinski

Detachment Quotes

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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...

Quotes by Wislawa Szymborska

One entry warns that the arts risk existing apart from each other unless craftsmen work together deliberately. Related reading continues in our Alone and Detachment pages.