It is my opinion that the isolated mind loses its purchase on reality all too easily and becomes prone to fantasy.
Frank TallisTag: imagination reality insanity mind fantasy isolation pathology
I have become convinced that the more wealth a country accumulates, the more isolated and lonely its people become. The loneliest are usually the children and the elderly. Children learn what they live, and isolation in the ‘village’ is one of the most destructive messages we daily write on the tablets of their hearts.
Wess StaffordTag: children loneliness isolation community
We don't heal in isolation, but in community.
S. Kelley HarrellTag: isolation community healing support shamanism trauma ptsd
If isolation is the furnace of transformation, I could be ashes by now.
Stephen ChristianTag: isolation transformation
I stood lonely enough, but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed: it did not oppress me much.
Charlotte BrontëTag: loneliness isolation
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Our society is so fragmented, our family lives so sundered by physical and emotional distance, our friendships so sporadic, our intimacies so 'in-between' things and often so utilitarian, that there are few places where we can feel truly safe.
Henri J.M. NouwenTag: society despair loneliness isolation alienation brokenness
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'EngleTag: isolation our-story madeleine-l-engle walking-on-water
He had been for many years, a quiet silent man, associating but little with other men, and used to companionship with his own thoughts. He had never known before the strength of the want in his heart for the frequent recognition of a nod, a look, a word; or the immense amount of relief that had been poured into it by drops through such small means.
Charles DickensTag: solitude sadness loneliness isolation
I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.
Franz KafkaTag: loneliness isolation
It seemed to me that all things were possible on the island, all tyrannies and cruelties, though in small; and if, in despite of what was possible, we lived at peace with another, surely this was proof that certain laws unknown to us held sway, or else that we had been following the promptings of our hearts all this time, and our hearts had not betrayed us.
J.M. CoetzeeTag: peace tyranny sympathy isolation cruelty
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