Quotes About Isolation

The professors at MIT—some of the most innovative technologists in the world—wanted nothing to do with an open-office-style workspace. They instead demanded the ability to close themselves off. This combination of soundproofed offices connected to large common areas yields a hub-and-spoke architecture of innovation in which both serendipitous encounter and isolated deep thinking are supported.

After thirty days of this self-imposed network isolation, ask yourself the following two questions about each of the services you temporarily quit: Would the last thirty days have been notably better if I had been able to use this service? Did people care that I wasn't using this service?

Anthony Storr helped correct this omission with his seminal book, Solitude: A Return to the Self.

Sosyal medya üzerinde çal??an ve dersler veren bir akademisyenin sözlerini al?nt?layacak olursam: Bu kadar çok insanla irtibat halinde olmam?za gerek yok.

Biz insanlar, geli?mek için yaln?zl??a ihtiyaç duyuyoruz ve son y?llarda fark?nda olmadan bu kritik davran??a hayatlar?m?zda sistematik olarak daha az yer verir hale geldik. Velhas?l?kelam, ?öyle de denebilir: ?nsan devreleri, sürekli ba?lant? halinde olacak ?ekilde ba?lanmam??t?r.

Lincoln's time alone with his thoughts played a crucial role in his ability to navigate a demanding wartime presidency. We can therefore say, with only mild hyperbole, that in a certain sense, solitude helped save the nation.

During these periods, which can last up to three or four days, he'll often put an out-of-office auto-responder on his e-mail so correspondents will know not to expect a response. "It sometimes confuses my colleagues," he told me. "They say, 'You're not out of office, I see you in your office right now!'" But to Grant, it's important to enforce strict isolation until he completes the task at hand.

Kethledge, it turned out, relies on long periods alone with his thoughts to write his famously sharp legal opinions, often working at a simple pine desk in a barely renovated barn with no internet connection.

I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.

Whatever I thought right seemed bad to others; whatever seemed wrong to me, others approved of. I ran into feuds wherever I found myself, I met disfavor wherever I went; if I longed for happiness, I only stirred up misery; so I had to be called "Woeful": Woe is all I possess. Wagner, Die Walküre

The kind of cold that comes when the heart gives up on itself and abandons hope, a cold no fire on on earth could ever warm.

She had held the dirt at bay, but she couldn't clean away the indifference that clung to the walls and ceiling.

Le mal du pays lui perçait la poitrine et les remords lacéraient tout espoir d'une vie meilleure. Il était naufragé.

You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!

I have fallen into an abyss. I live in a world so curious, so strange. Of the dream that was my life, this is my nightmare.

La vida la hemos olvidado. Para nosotros no existen ya más horizonte que los que hemos preferido elegir, lo cual viene a ser una ventaja, sin duda alguna. El mundo empieza y acaba a cuatro metros de nosotros mismos, alrededor de nuestra cama, y las gentes que gozan de los placeres de la existencia, los hombres y las mujeres que ríen y bailan desafortunadamente, que se aman y se besan sin tiento y sin medida, no son nuestros hermanos.

It used to be she didn't get dressed a lot of days. Now she comes out of her room most mornings dressed like she's ready to go. She still doesn't go anywhere, but the important part is, she could.

Better alone than badly accompanied.

Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.

He had no idea where he was, but, he thought with a small twinge of consolation, neither did anyone else.

There is a universal saying to the effect that it is when men are off in the wilds that they show themselves as they really are

About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times.

Colui a cui il destino impone di fare la sua strada deve percorrerla armato soltanto di speranza e con gli occhi bene aperti, consapevole della sua solitudine e del pericolo che gli abissi della solitudine rappresentano.

Yaln?zl?k, insan?n çevresinde insan olmamas? demek deÄŸildir. Ä°nsan kendisinin önemsediÄŸi ÅŸeyleri baÅŸkalar?na ulaÅŸt?ramad??? ya da baÅŸkalar?n?n olanaks?z bulduÄŸu baz? görüÅŸlere sahip olduÄŸu zaman kendisini yaln?z hisseder.