{"quotes":[{"text":"Perhaps because my town was so naturally gothic in its architecture and relative isolation - the roads often closed in winter - my stories tended toward the ghostly and the creepily suspenseful right from the get-go.","author":"Andrew Pyper","tags":["winter","roads","isolation "],"id":2274,"author_id":"Andrew+Pyper"},{"text":"How catastrophic is it when the church herself becomes secularized and expressive individualism sits in the driver’s seat in the church’s life and mission. When the church has lost connection with Christ her living head, she loses her soul.","author":"Harold L. Senkbeil","tags":["isolation","selfishness"],"id":3303,"author_id":"Harold+L.+Senkbeil"},{"text":"I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.","author":"David Bowie","tags":["great","isolation","kind "],"id":5732,"author_id":"David+Bowie"},{"text":"They were shiny, shiny people that were bright like light bulbs, but there I stood out like a sore thumb, my dimness flickering self, and they saw it and removed themselves from me, forming their circle of light. Until the night died, they never noticed when the sun broke open its skull of rays, where I laid by the stop sign.","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["bullying","circle","die","dimness","friends","hurt","ignore","isolation","lonliness","oppress","people","shiny","society","unwelcome"],"id":7035,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"},{"text":"Sometimes isolation can be shared.","author":"Ken Grimwood","tags":["alone","aloneness","isolation","loneliness","solitude"],"id":10414,"author_id":"Ken+Grimwood"},{"text":"Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for the sake of money, company, love, glory or curiosity, none of which can thrive in silence and solitude. If you can't live alone, you were born a slave. You may have all the splendours of the mind and the soul, in which case you're a noble slave, or an intelligent servant, but you're not free. And you can't hold this up as your own tragedy, for your birth is a tragedy of Fate alone. Hapless you are, however, if life itself so oppresses you that you're forced to become a slave. Hapless you are if, having been born free, with the capacity to be isolated and self-sufficient, poverty should force you to live with others.","author":"Fernando Pessoa","tags":["freedom","isolation","self-sufficiency","servant","slave","slavery"],"id":11744,"author_id":"Fernando+Pessoa"},{"text":"There should be a little gap between you and your friends, though you'll miss their companionship and you'll also miss their disrespect.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["alone","apart","breathing-space","companionship","disrespect","distance","escape","friends","gap","i-miss-you","intermission","interval","isolation","missing","missing-someone","remote","remoteness","reticence"],"id":12807,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"29. Most loneliness results from insulation rather than isolation. In other words, we are lonely because we insulate ourselves, not because others isolate us.","author":"James C. Dobson","tags":["are","because","from","in","insulate","insulation","isolate","isolation","loneliness","lonely","most","not","other","others","ourselves","rather","results","than","us","we","words"],"id":16592,"author_id":"James+C.+Dobson"},{"text":"Isolation can be a particular problem for mothers at home with small children. Mothers become isolated from each other because we fear judgement. Other mothers can be our harshest critics. And we anticipate that criticism and don't ask each other for help.","author":"Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett","tags":["isolation","judgement","motherhood"],"id":17176,"author_id":"Kathleen+A.+Kendall-Tackett"},{"text":"Isolation is at the heart of all disease, therefore healing requires community and the support of others.","author":"Sharon Weil","tags":["be-the-change","community","disease","heal","healed","healing","isolation","others","support","supporting-others"],"id":17271,"author_id":"Sharon+Weil"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":265,"pages":27,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}