77 Quotes About Isolated

You can not hide on an island and expect that water will not find you.

I felt as if I were in an exiled and floating world, isolated from all necessities of life except the one of buying things.

Most of my friendships had faded over the last year because I’d isolated myself and hidden from the embarrassment of my daily life.

Isolated nature cannot fit into the row, such people are hungry for uniqueness, they have their own ways, own thinking.

The trick is not to be isolated―if you're isolated, like Winston Smith in 1984, then sooner or later you're going to break, as he finally broke. That was the point of Orwell's story. In fact, the whole tradition of popular control has been exactly that: to keep people isolated, because if you can keep them isolated enough, you can get them to believe anything. But when people get together, all sorts of things are possible.

Isolation gives time but not immunity.

There is a sense of sovereignty that comes from life on a mountain, a perception of privacy and isolation, even of dominion.

I wish I could have told you how much talking and writing to you meant to me all year. How you were my bullshit detector. How you listened and kept me true, even when I wanted to block my ears, because you had no filter between your thoughts and your mouth. How you were my best friend, and how it was only because of you that I never felt isolated or desperate to attach myself to anyone at Laurinda.

A savage sense entered me, of being of such small account in the world that I wasn't to be helped, that priest and woman and man had put out an edict that I wasn't to be helped, I was to be left to the elements, just as I was, a walking animal, forsaken.Maybe it was then that some part of me leapt away from myself, something fled from my brain, I don't know.