Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair. Votes: 2
But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness. Votes: 2
If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness. Votes: 2
Scary is time passing and sickness and dying and regret and isolation and loneliness and relationship problems - as opposed to a guy in a hockey mask, which didn't seem that scary. Votes: 2
I believe that dialogue is the key to breaking through our tendency to separate and isolate. Dialogue changes isolation and loneliness into connection and interdependence. This, I believe, is the essence of Buddhism. Votes: 2
And yet, these insights of connectedness and oneness, which make us feel so at home in the world, are so difficult to hold onto. And so, inevitably, we wind up living lives of isolation and loneliness. Votes: 2
The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake. Votes: 2
I don't deliberately look for something dark or bleak or disconnected, in fact that's not something I'm even conscious of in the work as I'm making it. I'm always trying to create beauty, reveal hope, show the sense of longing that exists in isolation and loneliness, and capture the search for something greater inside all of my subjects. Votes: 2
Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness. Votes: 0
We are awakening from the dream of isolation, from the dream of loneliness, and it's a terrible shock. Votes: 0
A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone. Votes: 0
Isolation and loneliness create the conditions for rapid aging. The key is to stay connected and open to new relationships throughout your life. Votes: 0
Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering. Votes: 0
I was born on a tiny cot in southwestern Massachusetts during World War II. A sickly child, I turned to photography to overcome my loneliness and isolation. Votes: 0
I am interested in the loneliness and isolation that we can feel when we hide feelings we are ashamed of, especially if they concern people that we love. Votes: 0
Though we are all human beings, we have built walls between ourselves and our neighbors through nationalism, through race, caste, and class - which again breeds isolation, loneliness. Votes: 0
It's clear to me that anyone, anywhere, can experience loneliness, isolation, solitude, and estrangement; and most people probably do encounter these things at some point in their lives. Votes: 0
This is how the world changes - little by little, table by table, meal by meal, hour by hour. This is how we chip away at isolation, loneliness, fear. This is how we connect, in big and small ways - we do it around the table.
Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man. Votes: 7 Thomas Carlyle
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. Votes: 6 Mother Teresa