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Quotes About Isolation

The worse I get along with people the more I learn to have faith in Nature and concentrate on her.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill.
~ Wallace Stevens
People are crazy and times are strangeI'm locked in tight, I'm out of rangeI used to care, but things have changed
~ Bob Dylan
I watched the moon alone, unable to share his cold beauty with anyone.
~ Haruki Murakami, Yesterday
Parul Wadhwa, The Masquerade
~ I walk alone and on my own.
Those who understand the true nature of humanity are always loners
~ Dean Cavanagh
Trees quiver in the wind, sailing on a sea of mistout of earshot.
~ Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings
There are 200, 000 species of fly alone. So the void, the emptiness, must be in you.
~ Marty Rubin
A lamb among wolves!
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Dark spruce frowned on either side of the frozen waterway.
~ Jack London, White Fang
He stood at the edge of town feeling very small, powerless. Night in the mountains could do that to you, reminding you of your place in the world and laughing at any sense of self-importance.
~ Michael Koryta, Rise the Dark
Mother Earth has never been more crowded, yet her inhabitants have never been more lonely.
~ Anasazi Foundation
Mysteriously, almost unaccountably, my family had ended up in the trees, sort of like the Swiss Family Robinson.
~ Richard Preston
Home at that moment was a starless night, a steady wind, not a human to be seen.
~ Alan Furst, Mission to Paris
Suffering, he thought later, could rob a man of his empathy, could turn him selfish, could make him depreciate all other sufferers.
~ Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries
Social hierarchy doesn't hold a candle to the power of feeling isolated in your own skin.
~ Elyse Draper, Freewill
Don't ever think you're alone here, We've just been trapped in different hells, And people aren't against you dear, They're just all for themselves.
~ Erin Hanson
Loneliness changes you more than time.
~ viditi
...a man's blood soon runs cold where there is no one around to warm it up.
~ Anonymous, Go Ask Alice
The day stared back an empty gray, with not a speck of white to give character to the lifeless sky.
~ Ashley Madau
He sounded absolutely miserable. "Are you ever going to speak to me?
~ Maggie Stiefvater, Forever
Tender Ember...Barred and brandedto be forever unlovedI was a tender emberseeking solace from above...
~ Muse, Enigmatic Evolution
It is a frightening thing to love someone you know the world rejects.
~ Martha N. Beck
But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.
~ Samuel Beckett