One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way. Read Summary
I think a lot of kids feel alone and slightly isolated and in their own world. Read Summary
Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality. Read Summary
I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That's a horrible existence for people. Read Summary
Israel is following policies which maximise its security threats... policies which choose expansion over security... policies which lead to their moral degradation, their isolation, their delegitimation, as they call it now, and very likely ultimate destruction. That's not impossible. Read Summary
Once I'm already in my room, I still have to open a door to get into my bed. It's like a giant box. It's like the boy in a bubble. Read Summary
I don't really see many people... don't really go anywhere either. Read Summary
I don't think I could think of a single thing that's more isolating than being famous. Read Summary
I have to admit I've found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I'm pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me. Read Summary
I really don't pay attention to the outside world when I'm incarcerated, because being in prison is like being in a different world. So I don't pay attention to what's going on outside of jail, because it's all beyond my control. Read Summary
I've always been a loner. Read Summary
I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that's going on. I feel like I'm in my own bubble. Read Summary
Puberty was very vague. I literally locked myself in a room and played guitar. Read Summary
It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel. Read Summary
There's an urgent need to stop reacting to each immediate vexing issue in isolation. Such response often creates unanticipated second-order effects and even more problems for us. Read Summary
No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation. Read Summary
I always felt an outsider. Read Summary
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? Read Summary
The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all. Read Summary
I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment. Read Summary