Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Isolation Quotes
IsolationMindfulnessPerceptionPresenceSelf-awareness I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that's going on. I feel like I'm in my own bubble.
AlienationChildhoodIdentityIsolationSelf-Perception From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family.
ConfidenceFashion IndustryIndividualityIsolationSelf-Perception I wouldn't say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don't think there's anyone on my side.
BoredomInactivityIsolationLoneliness Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.
DepressionIsolationLonelinessSeeking ComfortSelf Reflection I was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.
CommunicationIsolationLanguagePerceptionReality Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
BeautyIdealismIsolationReality By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
Abstract ConceptsIsolationPerceptionPreferenceTechnology The Internet is just an abstract place. Sure, I've become part of that in some way, but it's hard for me to wrap my head around a lot of it. I prefer just to kind of stay out of it.
GratitudeIsolationMinisteringPersonal NeedsPower Dynamics I'm grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.
DepressionEnvironmental ConcernsIsolationPowerlessnessSadness When I was 11 I became very depressed. It had a lot to do with the climate and ecological crisis. I thought everything was just so wrong and nothing was happening and there's no point in anything.
AmbitionDreamsIsolationSelf-DiscoveryWanderlust I've almost had to prove myself to Icelandic people. Living in such an isolated space, it gives you this innate sense of wanderlust, and dreaming for something much bigger.
BurdenIsolationLeadershipWorry The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep Few people know the predicament we are in.
ChangeFreedomIdentityIsolation I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.
FameIdentityIsolationLonelinessSocial Perception I don't think I could think of a single thing that's more isolating than being famous.
BeliefGuardingIndependenceIsolationPerception Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.
CultureIsolationLibrariesPersonal BackgroundRural Life I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else.
Emotional StrugglesIsolationSelf-CenterednessSuffering Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.
IdentityIsolationLegacyMortalityRecognition Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
EscapeIsolationSocietySolitudeUrban Life As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
CommercialismDisorientationIdentityIsolationTouring Life When I'm doing a book tour in the States, I'll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain hotel, and I don't know where I am right away. I'll go to the window, and it doesn't help there either, especially if you're in an anonymous strip and it's the usual Victoria's Secret, Gap, Chili's, Applebee's.
ChangeIsolationPersonal ReflectionRecognitionUrban Life One day, walking through the Bronx streets, I just realized that people were stopping me, taking pictures, and noticing me from across the street. I can't even use public transportation anymore, so I kind of stopped going places and started going straight to the studio, going home, and telling people I can't go anywhere anymore.
BeautyEscapeIsolationMemoryMusic Growing up in Iceland, it was very beautiful, very safe, but quite isolated. There was something about jazz music that had a way of transporting me to a different time and place; it was a form of escape.
HumorIdentityIsolationPerceptionSelf-awareness No one knows Anne's better side, and that's why most people can't stand me. Oh, I can be an amusing clown for an afternoon, but after that, everyone's had enough of me to last a month.
