#isolation

National isolation breeds national neurosis. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

#isolation #national #neurosis

Isolation is a dream killer. ↗

— Barbara Sher

#isolation #killer

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

#beings #consciousness #cry #face #feel

Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, "It's my own business. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#madeleine-l-engle #our-story #walking-on-water #art

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#integrity #isolation #reading #self-knowledge #social-change

One situation – maybe one alone – could drive me to murder: family life, togetherness. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#family #isolation #murder #family

. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#isolation #loneliness #personality #solitude #love

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

— Luke Ford

#away #contributed #far #far away #glorifying

I rent houses in LA when I'm filming. I find the isolation there terrifying. There's nowhere to go, there's nowhere to be with people. I'm not a beach bunny. ↗

— Kathleen Turner

#bunny #filming #find #go #houses

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

— Robert Zemeckis

#function #human #human beings #isolation #well