Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know.

When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions.

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his talent.

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable.

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

Nothing vivifies and nothing kills like the emotions.

Have friends, not for the sake of receiving, but of giving.

You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

There's a real purity in New Zealand that doesn't exist in the states. It's actually not an easy thing to find in our world anymore. It's a unique place because it is so far away from the rest of the world. There is a sense of isolation and also being protected.

I rent houses in LA when I'm filming. I find the isolation there terrifying. There's nowhere to go, there's nowhere to be with people. I'm not a beach bunny.

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

There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past.

Isolation is a dream killer.

Isolation is a self-defeating dream.

Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.

The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.

Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years.

The geographical isolation and lack of television made world happenings and problems seem remote.

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

One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the isolation of working part-time as a house painter in Henderson County, to Cornell, where everybody was a literary person.

The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.

If isolation tempers the strong, it is the stumbling-block of the uncertain.

There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.

And with each day that passed, the gulf broadened and my isolation became more accentuated. In such a situation, the discovery that my experience was not unique, that it had also been that of other Spanish intellectuals, became very important for me.

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

National isolation breeds national neurosis.

I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity.

Too much of what is called "education" is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

One could not have isolated this retrovirus without knowledge of other retroviruses, that's obvious. But I believe we have answered the criteria of isolation.