#isolation

It is my opinion that the isolated mind loses its purchase on reality all too easily and becomes prone to fantasy. ↗

— Frank Tallis

#imagination #insanity #isolation #mind #pathology

The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake. ↗

— Jessica Lange

#about #also #been #cabin #connects

Composing demands a degree of isolation. ↗

— Cliff Martinez

#degree #demands #isolation

One could not have isolated this retrovirus without knowledge of other retroviruses, that's obvious. But I believe we have answered the criteria of isolation. ↗

— Luc Montagnier

#believe #could #criteria #i #i believe

One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the isolation of working part-time as a house painter in Henderson County, to Cornell, where everybody was a literary person. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#changes #cornell #county #ever #everybody

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#alone #aura #childbirth #every #isolation

If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#flame #isolation #laughter #loss #sacrifice

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

— Paul Theroux

#i #idea #isolation #like #lonely

Not Waving but Drowning Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought And not waving but drowning. Poor chap, he always loved larking And now he's dead It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way, They said. Oh, no no no, it was too cold always (Still the dead one lay moaning) I was much too far out all my life And not waving but drowning. ↗

— Stevie Smith

#isolation #life

The monks' response was to climb into their curraghs and row off toward Greenland. They were drawn across the storm-racked ocean, drawn west past the edge of the known world, by nothing more than a hunger of the spirit, a yearning of such queer intensity that it beggars the modern imagination. ↗

— Jon Krakauer

#papar #peace #spirit #imagination