Social Isolation Quotes

#1. Whenever justice is uncertain and police spying and terror are at work, human beings fall into isolation, which, of course, is the aim and purpose of the dictator state, since it is based on the greatest possible accumulation of depotentiated social units.

Carl Jung

#2. I've always modeled myself after Ginger.

Marla Maples

#3. As a group, housewives to-day suffer more from social isolation and loss of purpose than any other social group, except, perhaps, the old.

Alva Myrdal

#4. In 2009, it was forecast that the number of single-person households would increase by two million in 10 years, suggesting that social isolation will only get worse.

Bee Wilson

#5. She could be lively only in the midst of life; in isolation she dwindled to a shadow.

Stefan Zweig

#6. The new contract between writers and readers is one I'm prepared to sign up to. I've met some fascinating people at events and online. Down with the isolation of writers I say! And long live Twitter.

Sara Sheridan

#7. The poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his sneses, and the mind is no longer in him.

Plato

#8. It drives me crazy when people talk about the scale as an indicator of health, because your weight doesn't tell you what's going on at a biochemical level.

Elizabeth Holmes

#9. Too long have I confined myself in Miltonic isolation and meditation. It is clearly time for me to step boldly into our society, not in the boring, passive manner of the Myrna Minkoff school of social action, but with great style and zest.

John Kennedy Toole

#10. With enough insider information and a million dollars, you can go broke in a year.

Warren Buffett

#11. There's a great deal of scientific evidence that social connectedness is a very strong protector of emotional well-being, and I think there's no question that social isolation has greatly increased in our culture in, say, the past 50 years, past 100 years.

Andrew Weil

#12. One real meeting is much better than a thousand internet or social media words.

Stephen Richards

#13. The world is neither fair nor right, but it has a way of balancing itself.

V.E Schwab

#14. Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self-righteous isolation.

John Dewey

#15. Everyday she loses a bit more of herself , every day another nail in her coffin house payments medical bills and middle aged isolation

Saira Viola

#16. It talked about the isolation felt by gifted young people whose social skills could not keep up with their intellects and who were often ostracized.

Dan Brown

#17. Unprecedented financial pressures, and an ever-increasingly aggressive public culture, along with social, moral and spiritual fragmentation, are leading to lives being overwhelmed by stress, intolerable interior isolation and even quiet despair.

Sean Brady

#18. The Middle East, with two-thirds of the world's oil and lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies.

Dick Cheney

#19. Man is alone in the world, in tremendous eternal isolation. He has no object outside himself; lives for nothing else; he is far removed from being the slave of his wishes, of his abilities, of his necessities; he stands far above social ethics; he is alone. Thus he becomes one and all.

Otto Weininger

#20. The mere suggestion that not speaking for a day can give you an appreciation of the social isolation that comes with the experience of disability, particularly those whose impairments prohibit them from communicating verbally, is insensitive at best.

Stella Young

#21. The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind.

Edgar Allan Poe

#22. ...very lonely and, often, very unhappy, with the poignant misery that comes to lonely people who long to be social and cannot, somehow, step naturally and unselfconsciously into some friendly group

Shirley Jackson

#23. Caught in your youniverse again? Try reaching out to the one besides you!

Stefan Emunds

#24. A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.

Dean Koontz

#25. It's because of 'ER' that I've gotten the opportunity to get the work.

Abraham Benrubi

#26. social isolation and lack of self awareness can occur partly because there are simply no words to tell the story.

Onno Van Der Hart

#27. if the wealthiest fraction of a society feel that they can afford to insulate themselves from the common fate and buy their way out of the common institutions, that is also a form of social isolation.

Anthony B. Atkinson

#28. Social isolation. Some people lack the feeling of belonging to others. They feel isolated, as if they were cut off from the rest of the world. The

Gitta Jacob

#29. Marginalised and abused children are often overlooked even today, and risk becoming marginalised and abused adults who may never receive acknowledgment or respect for the immense physical and emotional burden they carry from childhood or indeed have their full potential realised.

Jane Hersey

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

D.H. Lawrence

#31. The Internet has made some phenomenal breakthroughs that are still only poorly understood in terms of changing people's ideas of us and them. If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite.

Alex Steffen

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

Luke Ford

#33. We are relational creatures. All humans live in community and most people seek social interaction. In western culture, isolation is seen as one of the most stringent of punishments. Even criminals do not aspire to solitary confinement.

Gary Chapman

#34. People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.

Keith Henson