There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world. —A.R. Ammons More about this quote Tags: opinion creativity culture isolation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I can't count the number of times I have officially assembled the equipment to take my life: a knife, a handgun, a plastic bag, a bottle of codeine and a fifth of vodka. My motivations are never quite clear: perception of failure, futility, a sense of irremediable isolation, mtv — nothing everyone else hasn't suffered through. Yet I tend to magnify my gloomy outlook into a drive-in picture of the end of the world. I can't seem to remember that despair is a temporary state, a dark storm along the highway; that if I can just stick it out, keep the wipers going and my foot on the gas, I will make it through to the other side. —Poe Ballantine More about this quote Tags: failure despair suicide isolation futility temporary Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no one in his right mind will believe this. —Albert Camus More about this quote Tags: society evil good punishment isolation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation. —Margaret Mead More about this quote Tags: isolation community Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email