534 Quotes About Isolation

God had said to listen to what five people tell you and don’t hold on to your own opinion. The person who holds on to his opinion is isolated. If you insist upon it, it will harm you as well as others. This true-false is a relative truth; it is a mundane [worldly] truth. One should not insist upon it.

If the whole word, except the United States, sank under the ocean, that community could get its living. They carved it out of the prairie and the forest. They’re going to have a strong national resurgence in the near future.

Loneliness is not a result of physical isolation; you're only lonely the day you realize that nobody shares your opinions.

Theologies and political dogmas rot on the vine when left in isolation too long.

If isolation is the furnace of transformation, I could be ashes by now.

Recovery can take place only within then context of relationships; it cannot occur in isolation.

Or, in truth, eventually, though I still noticed, the callouses on my spirit prevented wounds (p.75).

Many Survivors blame themselves for the abuse and continue to feel responsible and guilty for anything bad that happens to them or to other people they know. Survivors often feel bad about themselves and different from other people. They therefore isolate themselves from other people and avoid making close friendships.

I would check myself and wonder if I had already contracted the plague, as in such strange countries my thoughts rambled. But then I decided it was merely the times that made us strange , and we must cling to our sanity, and accept there were fewer and fewer touchstones against which to check or measure it. It often felt as though it was a daily battle merely to stop ourselves running mad.