Quotes About Isolation

By all means use some time to be alone.

I would always be lonely, but no more alone.

It is easier to win than to fail. Everybody sides with the winner. But the failure walks alone.

I hate being alone, even for 10 minutes.

If you travel too often, you actually come face-to-face with what you're trying to escape. I feel like when I travel alone, sometimes it's like being locked in a hotel room with my own worst enemy.

He didn't want Lucy to grow up feeling alone, surrounded by everything and having nothing.

I realize full well how hard it must be to go on living alone in a place from which someone has left you, but there is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.

I squeeze my eyes shut and try to reach for him across the hundreds and hundreds of miles, to send my thoughts into his mind, to let him know he is not alone. But he is. And I can't help him.

One little Indian boy left all alone; He went and hanged himself and then there were none.

Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you're contagious.

Jesus watches from the wall, But his face is cold as stone, And if he loves me As she tells me Why do I feel so all alone?

...being alone with him was like being in a room which someone had just violently left

I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone.

Moving makes you feel all alone inside.

We write to know we are not alone

I want to be alone ... I just want to be alone.

We're always alone. You can be in a crowded room and still feel the bite of loneliness. Personally, I find that it bites deepest whenever others are around.

It's not living alone if you keep a rifle under the bed.

There's a difference between being alone and being lonely. Writers know that. I have never met a writer who does not crave to be alone. We have to be alone to do what we do.

Looks aren't all there is in the world, my lady. They are certainly no protection against being alone. Hearts never see through the eyes. (Sebastian)

You've gotten so caught up in being alone that you're afraid of what might happen if you actually find someone else that can take you away from it.

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone.

I want to be alone with my thought.

There is a big difference between being lonely and being alone. I am alone when I write, but I am rarely lonely.