Brave New World Isolation Quotes & Sayings

Mother, monogamy, romance. High spurts the fountain; fierce and foamy the wild jet. The urge has but a single outlet. My love, my baby. No wonder those poor pre-moderns were mad and wicked and miserable. Their world didn't allow them to take things easily, didn't allow them to be sane, virtuous, happy. What with mothers and lovers, what with the prohibitions they were not conditioned to obey, what with the temptations and the lonely remorses, what with all the diseases and the endless isolating pain, what with the uncertainties and the poverty - they were forced to feel strongly. And feeling strongly (and strongly, what was more, in solitude, in hopelessly individual isolation), how could they be stable? — Aldous Huxley

Monotheism is the primitive religion which centers human consciousness on Hive Authority. There is One God and His Name is _ (substitute Hive-Label). If there is only One God then there is no choice, no option, no selection of reality. There is only Submission or Heresy. The word Islam means "submission". The basic posture of Christianity is kneeling. Thy will be done. — Timothy Leary

I also found out why I should never reveal the "why" to others. A little knowledge withheld is a great advantage one should store for future use. That is the power of chess. It is a game of secrets in which one must show and never tell. — Amy Tan

I hadn't been looking for trouble, but it seemed that now that I'd found it, I wasn't running from it, either. — Chanel Cleeton

I've always felt lucky to live someplace where snow is rare, you know? It's rareness that makes it so speacial. — Stephanie Perkins

When I try to understand somebody, create a character, I fall into them. When I think writers are telling me what to think, I get harrumphy. — Hari Kunzru

Oh, very well, do you want to know why I really think you should keep a journal?"
She nodded.
"Because someday you're going to grow into yourself, and you will be as beautiful as you already are smart. — Julia Quinn

There will always be one or two things bothering the person next to you. And if that person happens to be looking heavenward, it's because it helps us to remind ourselves that God is bigger than our problems. — Joyce Rachelle

There is a tradition that jumping off a precipice is prejudicial to the health; and therefore nobody does it. Then appears a progressive prophet and reformer, who points out that we really know nothing about it, because nobody does it. And the tradition is thereby mocked - to the peril of us all. — G.K. Chesterton

A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever. — Jesse Jackson

Is not impermanence the very fragrance of our days? — Rainer Maria Rilke

In fact, you don't have a soul, you are your own soul. In other words, you are not this book, your social security card, your body or your mind. You are you. — L. Ron Hubbard

You do not need to understand healing to be healed or know anything about blessing to be blessed. — Frederick Buechner

Love can heal the sickness of all malice by forgiving others of preconceived hatred and prejudice. — Colishia S. Benjamin