Quotes About Isolation

Sometimes I just want to be left alone and be a normal kid for, like, five minutes. That's tough when the paparazzi are chasing you.

Be good and you will be lonely.

I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone.

The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.

The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.

Being alone has nothing to do with how many people are around.

Deep within every man there lies the dread of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the tremendous household of millions and millions.

There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

why won't they leave me alone? don't they realize I have a tinder heart and a paper body and that any spark will turn me straight to ash?

Being alone means there is no one else in this world

I don't collaborate. You're born alone, you die alone, you get on stage alone.

People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown.

Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.

The leader is always alone before bad fates.

I am left alone on the surface of a turning planet.

I'm gonna go live in a cave, just completely live in my interior world.

I think, at heart, unless you discover faith in something else, something other, it's very hard to shake the thing that you're adrift alone.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

I'm an old broken down piece of meat and I deserve to be all alone . . .

The trouble is not really in being alone, it's being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd, don't you think?

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.