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Quotes About Isolation

The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world is through art.
~ Randall Jarrell
I'm with a crowd but oh so alone.
~ Elvis Presley
Works of Art are of an infinite loneliness.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
New York is a city where you're so alone, you're an individual, you can disappear. You can make something happen. But it's very different to make something happen in the art world.
~ Ai Weiwei
Works of art are of an infinite loneliness and with nothing so little to be reached as with criticism.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
The artist always has been and still is a being somewhat apart from the rest of humanity.
~ Beatrice M. Hinkle
It's only a few nutcases who do art for themselves, like Van Gogh.
~ David Bailey
For me, I think [art] exists in a cave. I am in a cave. I have my own editing place, but I'm not powerful enough to amass the resources to keep doing movies every two or three years.
~ Haile Gerima
Thou wine art the friend of the friendless, though a foe to all.
~ Herman Melville
The dreariest spot in all the land to Death they set apart; with scanty grace from Nature's hand, and none from that of Art.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
I've been circling the wagons down at Times Square, trying to fill up this hole in my soul but nothing fits in there.
~ John Hiatt
Writing is the most solitary of arts.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
The heart of [J.G.] Ballard's vision [is] the object at odds with its function and abandoned by its time.
~ Tacita Dean
She must disappear for a time from the human surface, And sacrifice everything for this, To recreate herself from the depths of her world.
~ David Foenkinos, Charlotte
For many decades after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, the Soviet Union had been closed off, an almost forbidden place, another world. The Soviet oil industry operated largely in isolation, with little of the flow of technology and equipment that was common in the rest of the world.
~ Daniel Yergin
They shut him out from everything they did, and in his isolation, he had sought solace in painting
~ Danielle Steel
It's just when we need it most that we don't reach out for help.
~ Danielle Steel
Subira o Evereste e alcançara o cume, com sucesso, sem que ninguém soubesse.
~ Danielle Steel
And in the parking lot, far from where she lay
~ Danielle Steel
Estéril es la persona que no puede amar, que no puede dar nada, que vive encerrada en sí misma. Todo eso es lo que importa y nada de eso eres tú, Sam. Tú no eres así.
~ Danielle Steel
just want to be alone to watch the
~ Danielle Steel
Yeah. Maybe," Lily said, but she was obviously upset about it. She felt forgotten by them all.
~ Danielle Steel
She was starving for friendship.
~ Danielle Steel
to someone who is depressed, everything is about depression.
~ Daphne Merkin