#isolation

I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#end #i #iraqi #iraqi people #isolation

Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, "It's my own business. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#madeleine-l-engle #our-story #walking-on-water #art

It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of. ↗

— Aimee Mann

#addiction #because #even #example #funny

One situation – maybe one alone – could drive me to murder: family life, togetherness. ↗

— Patricia Highsmith

#family #isolation #murder #family

This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#loneliness #life

I respect those who say that the United States should simply withdraw from the Middle East, but I don't respect them for anything but their honesty. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#isolationism #middle-east #noninterventionism #respect

My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation. ↗

— Luke Ford

#away #contributed #far #far away #glorifying

The arts don't exist in isolation. ↗

— David Byrne

#exist #isolation

We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation. ↗

— Robert Zemeckis

#function #human #human beings #isolation #well

Isolation is a self-defeating dream. ↗