Quotes About Isolation

A solitary man in his bed is like a poor bed-red lazar lying by the highway-side unto whose displayed wounds and sores a number of stinging flies do swarm for pastance and beverage. His naked wounds are his inward heart-griping woes, the wasps and flies his idle wandering thoughts; who to that secret smarting pain he hath already do add a further sting of impatience and new-lance his sleeping griefs and vexations.

Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she has nothing to do but to trade with them.

The state of a king shuts him from the world, yet the business of a king requires him to know it thoroughly;

Thomas Savage

Thomas Savage

Thomas Savage

in the snow on this or that side of the tunnel

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

The young and the old are defenseless against relatives who want to get rid of them by casting them in the role of mental patient,and against psychiatrists whose livelihood depends on defining them as mentally ill.

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

Which of us has known his brother? Which of us has looked into his father's heart? Which of us has not remained forever prison-pent? Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone?

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

Otherwise he was glad we had missed our landing, for he still had three books to read.

But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.

the condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the extent to which we are alone, and every show of deference which is extended to us separates us from our fellows.

Dinosaur/Mammoth: "It's cold.

She talked that night of all those out in the dark (she was thinking of Esteban alone, she was thinking of Pepita alone) who had no one to turn to, for whom the world perhaps was more than difficult, without meaning.

No one knows I lost my soul long ago

I try to live without you, everytime I do I feel dead.

And now your dead inside, still you wonder why, when your on the edge and falling off, its all over, for you

Her hands were empty now, as empty as her heart, which itself was a coconut shell with its meat scooped out.

This randomness makes her feel like vapor, someone inconsequential and invisible.

extreme loneliness is twice as likely to cause death among the elderly as obesity or high blood pressure. Those who had reported being lonely had a 14 percent greater risk of dying.

when one departs to the other shore, One does so alone on foot, with no horses and no companions.