Quotes About Isolation

Sometimes isolation can be shared.

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.

Alone, Alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never saint took pity on My soul in agony

Being alone and being lonely are two different things. (Yasu)

In the '50s, I was traveling alone all over Mindanao, Basilan, all the way to Tawi-Tawi with just a camera and a notebook. I always stayed in the houses of Moros.

There exists no greater megalomania than thinking that we are all alone in this cosmic ocean!

As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.

But I would not feel so all alone, everybody must get stoned.

It is only alone, truly alone that one bursts apart, springs forth.

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone.

Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone.

Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.

So I am lonely, but not alone, like everybody else.

We think we are unique, special and deserving of happiness, but we are terrified of being alone.

And a Famous Film Star who is left alone is more alone than any other person has ever been in the whole Histry of the World, because of the contrast to our normal enviromint.

Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.

Getting through the nights is the toughest part. Being alone. Not having her there to talk to.

The strongest men are the most alone.

Being alone onstage is like legalized insanity.

You know, there's that silly saying 'We're born alone and we die alone' -it's nonsense. We're surrounded at birth and surrounded at death. It is in between that we're alone.

Sociopaths are not afraid of very much, except for physical harm and dying - really primitive, basic kinds of fears. The problem with being alone for a sociopath is boredom.

I am too alone in the world and not alone enough to make every moment holy.

I think writers have to be able to enjoy solitude rather than just endure it. I've always enjoyed being left alone with my imagination, ever since I was a kid.