Quotes About Isolation

And it relieves me to learn that you are not trying to make friends," the captain said, locking her hammerhead eyes on Ms. Price, "because no one likes you.

my big depression. For six months I languished at the bottom of a deep hole, like the shaft of a waterless well, while kindly, puzzled people...peered down at me over the rim of the parapet and tried to cheer me up, or lowered drugs and advice in a bucket.

It's dark now. But they feel each others' breath. And they know all they need to know. They kiss. And they feel each others' tears on their cheeks. And if there had been anybody left to see them, then they would look like normal lovers, caressing each others' faces, bodies close together, eyes closed, oblivious to the world around them. Because that is how life goes on. Like that.

This rejection, this cold unthinking hate. How much it pains him, like a slap against a burnt patch of skin, even after all these years. The unkindness of strangers.

I have heard no word of my own language; I am rendered dumb.

There's nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won't ring from room service your mother won't be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, you're dead.

You may live in a crowd but you meet God and face eternity alone

God is a lonely place without steak.

Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.

It is far easier to be a Christian in isolation than it is to live out one's faith in the context of all those other imperfect people who make up God's church.

Hitler is lonely. So is God. Hitler is like God.

Lonely as God, and white as a winter moon, Mount Shasta starts up sudden and solitary from the heart of the great black forests of Northern California

Great God! This is an awful place.

Every substance is as a world apart, independent of everything else except God.

We're born alone and we die alone, I accept that. But why, God, do we have to be alone in the middle?

I have always sought to guide the future-but it is very lonely sometimes trying to play God.

The confession of the authority of the Word of God can never be isolated from the saving content of the Word of God.

Loneliness is dangerous ... because if aloneness does not lead to God, it leads to the devil. It leads to the self.

I run blindly through the madhouse ... And I cannot even pray ... For I have no God.

I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.

It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.

God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine.

There would never be a way for me to live comfortably with people. Maybe I'd become a monk. I'd pretend to believe in God and live in a cubicle, play an organ and stay drunk on wine.

Thanks for comin out, God bless you, good night... What of fame? Everyone knows your face, the world screams your name And never again, are you alone...