Quotes About Isolation

The desert feels Irish in a way - lonely and barren.

'Island of the Blue Dolphins' by Scott O'Dell had a huge impact on me.

I felt alone out there, like I was on a desert island. I felt like Gilligan.

I was born in Kodiak, and I was raised in a place called Dutch Harbor out on the Aleutian Islands. There's a show called the 'Deadliest Catch' on the Discovery Channel. And they film it on Dutch Harbor where I grew up.

Well you know, there's a lot of people on Shetland who've never been to Fair Isle. The place itself is very unique but also the people there were fantastic. They couldn't have done enough for us.

The overriding goal of counterinsurgency is to make friends: You make friends with the people; you isolate the insurgents.

If you really want to isolate a disease, then you have to isolate the people who carry it.

Getting on stage and screaming at all Republicans does nothing more than isolate people.

You cannot isolate a group and say you're not going to serve their needs.

I used to isolate myself and be in my room by myself all the time.

Look what we did with Cuba. You isolate a country, and all you do is impoverish that country.

I don't have many friends; I'm very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated, and I've never been really close to anyone.

Isolated incidents have lateral, lasting implications.

Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one.

For anyone who right now is hurting, for anyone who feels beneath a baseline, feels so isolated and lonely, know that you are not alone. First and foremost, you have a God that is going to sit closer than a brother.

Belarus cannot be isolated.

I felt so painfully isolated that I vowed I would get revenge on the world by becoming a famous cartoonist.

Growing up in Georgia in the southeastern United States, I was always reading and always kept to myself. I never felt isolated, though; I just liked being alone.

You're isolated as a writer, so I always envied people who could get up early and drive to work and fit into society.

People who are isolated interest me, whether they isolate themselves or have been isolated by circumstances.

I put together the idea for G3 because I felt isolated. The success of being a 'guitar hero' kept me away from all my friends who were guitar players. I thought it would be a lot more fun to play with them.

The father-mother family with two children isolated in a city flat is already insufficient.

Intellectual work is essentially a lonely process, and if you can find a way of doing something so that you're in company without being disturbed, that, for me, is the critical thing. I often get to feel isolated so often if I'm sitting either where there aren't people or isn't a view.

You can compel fear. You can even make someone feel they're in love if they're isolated and dependent for long enough. But laughter is free.