Isolation Is Hard Quotes

#1. Chronic illness is hard. Pain is hard. Isolation is hard. The financial cost is hard. Grieving is hard and necessary and sometimes takes far longer than we every imagined.

Cindee Snider Re

#2. That's the worst of sorrow . . . it's always a vicious circle. It makes one tense and hard and disagreeable, and this means that one repels and antagonises people, and then they dislike and avoid one--and that means more isolation and still more sorrow.

Vera Brittain

#3. The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.

D.H. Lawrence

#4. Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise ... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application.

Voltaire

#5. Money goes out first to pay expenses and then comes back as profits later - if at all. The high rate of failure of new businesses makes painfully clear that there is nothing inevitable about the money coming back.

Thomas Sowell

#6. He had a hard time fitting in. A sense of isolation left over from all those years. Not quite peer pressure. More like peer rejection.

Jamie Ford

#7. A person's character is what it is. It's a little like a marriage - only without the option of divorce. You can work on it and try to make it better, but basically you have to take the bitter with the sweet.

Hendrik Hertzberg

#8. Music was a vector that we wanted to build a universe around.

Thomas Bangalter

#9. My habitual mood of humiliation, self-doubt, forlorn depression, fell damp on the embers of my decaying ire.

Charlotte Bronte

#10. I'm in an unusual stage right now, because I haven't dated in so long. The sense of isolation turns it all into a bigger deal. Just taking the risk of opening that door is really hard for me right now.

Andie MacDowell

#11. I don't do game shows.

Trisha Goddard

#12. The President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent about the introduction of opium, and if a treaty is made, he wishes that opium may be strictly prohibited.

Townsend Harris

#13. I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.

Alice Paul

#14. As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.

Ann Brashares

#15. In me the tiger sniffs the rose.
Look in my heart, kind friends, and tremble,
Since there your elements assemble.

Siegfried Sassoon

#16. As far as carrying the American banner, you just do what's right for the kids.

Dennis Farina

#17. I gave it a shot, Lex. I gave you your space. I let you be happy. That's what you said you wanted." He gripped her hand a little harder. "How did that work? Are you happy? Are you happy without me?

K.A. Linde

#18. I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history.

Henry Rollins

#19. atop his head a goofy skin cap simulating baldness and fringed with shoulder-length scraggle.

Jonathan Kellerman