Franz Kafka
Writer
"Isolation is a way to know ourselves."
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Isolation
118 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Glenn Gould
Pianist
"Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness."
Desmond Tutu
Theologian, Activist
"A person is a person through other persons; you can't be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships."
Roger Williams
Theologian, Minister
"Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained."
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Philosopher, Speaker
"Only in relationship can you know yourself, not in abstraction, and certainly not in isolation."
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"At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone."
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"Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with others, are refuges from what man most dreads: isolation."
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"No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation."
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"The walls of isolation are not as solid as your suffering makes them seem."
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"Success, to me, is helping one person or many people counter the isolation and pseudoconnectivity of our lives by boosting their ability to connect to themselves and to others."
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"The isolation, the separateness, is always a part of any utopia."
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"Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act."
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"I could definitely empathize with the character, with the feelings of helplessness - if only the desperation and the feeling of isolation."
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"Poverty is not deprivation, it is isolation."
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"Battling terrorism must go beyond belligerence vs. isolation."
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"I think, if you have enough inner resources, then you can live in isolation for long periods of time and not feel diminished by it."
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"Alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know"
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"Isolation, you know, carries the seeds of its own destruction because as times change, other things seep in."
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"All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd."
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"Poverty is not simply having no money - it is isolation, vulnerability, humiliation and mistrust."
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"Isolation must precede true society."
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"There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally."
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"Whether we learn how to love ourselves and others will depend on the presence of a loving environment. Self-love cannot flourish in isolation."
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"I stood lonely enough, but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed: it did not oppress me much."
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"Generally, I like all islands. There, it is easier to rule."
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