Quotes About Isolation

I am a rock in a sea of despair and yearning. Take hold of me and together we may form an island of hope and plenty.

If the great internet connects us all ... then why are so many of us becoming increasingly isolated?

Thinking in loneliness and speaking in public are the two things leaders are masters at.

Love is just a mask. All we search is a Comfort, Acceptance. Consolation. Affirmation. Assurance. Indulgence. Isolation. Absolution and Remission.

Talking with someone at four in the morning, that's not the thing most people have a simplicity to enjoy.

Heroes don't have friends, they have fans.

To an optimist loneliness is freedom, to all others it is prison.

There is a lot of pain in being lonely, but a lot of beauty in being alone.

Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.

The more isolated a person is, the more destructive will be the power of sin over him, and the more deeply he becomes involved in it, the more disastrous is his isolation.

The poor (horse) had sure got a reason to be mean, and I guess he's at the point where he figgers no human is his friend any more.

It is easier to bring up death when it's not in the same area code as you are, and it wasn't back then. It is probably worth noting that nobody has mentioned it to me in the last couple of years.

Yes," Mom said. "People may want to kill themselves. But no one wants to be depressed, or in pain, or lonely, or hurt.

Loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern world, so full of freedom, independence and our own egotistical selves.

Loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern world, so full of freedom, independence and our own egotistical selves." The young man can't think of anything to say in response. The truth of the statement is too stark for him.

Kokoro, a remarkable novel by Natsume Soseki,

But missing people and being lonely, she pointed out, are two separate things.

The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly.

It was like before I was in a noisy church in a big city. Now it's like I'm in a beautiful monastery that no human has visited for a thousand years.

The Painted Veil

For me, there's something about planes that isolates and intensifies sadness, the way a looking glass can magnify the sun until it grows unbearably hot and burns.

I'm going to end up like one of those old weirdos who lives in a network of tunnels burrowed through trash - yet I do not fear this.

Regard yourself as a small corporation of one. Take yourself off on team-building exercises (long walks). Hold a Christmas party every year at which you stand in the corner of your writing room, shouting very loudly to yourself while drinking a bottle of white wine. Then masturbate under the desk. The following day you will feel a deep and cohering sense of embarrassment.

Surely it doesn't have to be this way? Stretching up the hill ahead of me, I begin to see all of my future relationships, bearing me on and up like some escalator of the fleshly. Each step is a man, a man who will penetrate me with his penis and his language, a man who will make a little private place with me, secure from the world, for a month, or a week, or a couple of years. How much more lonely and driven is the serial monogamist than the serial killer?