(216 quotes found)
“Isolation is a dream killer”
Barbara Sher
“Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders”
Daniel Webster
“You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on / into the dustbin of history!”
Leon Trotsky
“The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic and a killer”
D.H. Lawrence
“Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges”
Thomas W. Higginson
“I am greatly pleased with the public, authentic isolation in which we two, you and I, now find ourselves. It is wholly in accord with our attitude and our principles.”
Karl Marx
“It is a painting that exposes in oils what Chekhov so often did in print: sunlight mocking a dark isolation of the moment. A moment fixed in a brave, failing light.”
Alexandra Johnson
“For so long in my marriage and afterwards I'd been in isolation oblivious to everything but my darkest hedonsim and darkest hours" "Courtney Love diary extract”
Courtney Love
“More isolated, insulated, lonely, alienated, estranged black folk especially among the working class and working poor, but it's true across the board and that's what is frightening.”
Cornel West
“In a world with millions of international journeys and economic transactions every year, ideas of 'Splendid Isolation' or rhetoric about 'the White Cliffs of Dover' can do nothing to address international criminality, terrorism or serious and organized crime or address patterns of international migration,”
Charles Clarke
