Top 46 Man Is An Island Quotes
#2. No man is an island, no
woman lives in a vacuum,
and as much as we'd like
to compartmentalize, our
actions and decisions
affect those around us ... even if that's not our
intention.
Peter Adejimi
#4. No man is an island, entire of itself.
John Donne
#5. I have a cartoon where the guy is pretty much, he's a regular-sized guy, but he's the size of the island. He's saying no man is an island, but I come pretty damn close.
Robert Mankoff
#6. Whoever said that thing about how no man is an island probably doesn't live on one.
Tim Hall
#7. All problems have to be solved eventually by ONESELF, and that's where all your lovely John Donne stuff turns out to be a load of crap because, in the last analysis, A MAN IS AN ISLAND
Kenneth Williams
#8. Each man is an island unto itself" - Strangman
J.G. Ballard
#9. Every man is an island and at the same time also robinson crusoe.
Bryce Courtenay
#11. Society is itself an education in the extrovert values, and rarely has there been a society that has preached them so hard. No man is an island, but how John Donne would writhe to hear how often, and for what reasons, the thought is so tiresomely repeated.
William H. Whyte
#12. Tessa reached for the words ... You know, in that essay of Donne's, what he says ... about how no man is an island. Everything you do touches others.
Cassandra Clare
#13. No man is an island,' said John Donne. I feel we are all islands -- in a common sea.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#14. No man is an island. You can ask people for help and they can ask for your help in return.
Mr Hudson
#15. The Warrior knows that no man is an island.
He cannot fight alone; whatever his plan, he depends on other people. He needs to discuss his strategy, to ask for help, and, in moments of relaxation, to have someone with whom he can sit by the fire, someone he can regale with tales of battle.
Paulo Coelho
#18. Every man is an island, and every heart seeks the ferry to cross the main...
Mykyta Isagulov
#19. No man is an island. If you want to blame anybody for poisoning the world with that socialistic idea, blame John Donne.
Timothy Noah
#20. No man is an island. To fight the good fight we need help.
Paulo Coelho
#21. Although no man is an island, you can make quite an effective raft out of six.
Simon Munnery
#22. A good leader will seek the wisdom of others. After all, no man is an island!
Jim George
#24. Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled but halved. No man is an island
Neil Gaiman
#25. No man is an island but every woman is. That's why we build bridges.
Suzy Duffy
#26. Each man is an island unto himself. But though a sea of difference may divide us, an entire world of commonality lies beneath.
James Rozoff
#27. Maybe no man is an island, but some sure look like one.
Carrie Fisher
#28. No man is an island," he says. "Islands are made of dirt and rocks and trees. I don't know any people made of such things. Therefore, people are not islands.
Andrew Shaffer
#30. A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.
Bernard Malamud
#31. No man is an island, No man stands alone; Each man's joy is joy to me, Each man's grief is my own. We need one another, So I will defend Each man as my brother, Each man as my friend.
Jon M. Huntsman Sr.
#32. No man is an island."
"So I'm a peninsula. Only semi-detached.
Rodney Ross
#33. Sometimes I feel you are much too independent. So what if you are depending on other people? No man or woman is an island.
Preeti Shenoy
#34. Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.
Abe Fortas
#35. No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
Denis Waitley
#36. Man is like an island set in isolation in a fathomless sea enveloped by darkness, saying that the loneliness his self knows is so utterly absolute because even he knows not his self completely.
Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas
#37. It seems to me," said Magid finally, as the moon became clearer than the sun, "that you have tried to love a man as if he were an island and you were shipwrecked and you could mark the land with an X. It seems to me it is too late in the day for all that.
Zadie Smith
#38. As the man was bundled into an armoured police van, he turned and shouted: 'Don't waste your life following others! Be individual! Live your dreams!'
I stood there thinking. He was right. Ours is a society of followers, trapped by an island mentality.
Tahir Shah
#39. Life is an island. People come out of the sea, cross the island, and return to the sea. But this short life is long and beautiful. In getting to know nature man exalts the wonder and beauty of life.
Martiros Saryan
#40. It makes a man feel universal, floating over the continents, seeing the rim of the world, a line as clear as a compass arc, knowing it is just a turning of the bend to Atlantic twilight, to sediment plumes and kelp beds, an island chain glowing in the dusky sea.
Don DeLillo
#41. How shall we embrace the common man: give us a reason without a doubt?
Is Everyman fated as an island unto himself 'til his last bright day goes by?
David B. Lentz
#42. We must remember that man is not an island, totally isolated and disconnected from others. We are all part of a universal chain, or the universal consciousness. What happens to one happens to all.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#43. Art isn't a means for income when it comes to Hex. He would do it if he was trapped on an island by himself or the richest man in the world. For him, art is like breathing. He just has to do it.
Kenya Wright
#44. I've never been a man of joy or a man of war, or an island in a storm. Never an absolute like Lorn. That was what I pretended to be. I am and always have been a man who is made complete by those around him. I
Pierce Brown
#45. The man who ten years earlier and one year later was considered a bandit and outlaw is sent a two-day sail from France, to an island given into his possession, with his guards and several million, which are paid to him for some reason.
Leo Tolstoy
#46. Imagine that every man's mind is an island, surrounded by ocean. Each seems isolated, yet in reality all are linked by the bedrock from which they spring. If the ocean were to vanish, that would be the end of the islands. They would all be part of one continent, but the individuality would have gone
Arthur C. Clarke
