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Quotes About Isolation

Heaven for climate, Hell for company.
~ James M. Barrie
I am alone. There is no God where I am.
~ Aleister Crowley
My mother began to go crazy. Not in a 'Let's paint the kitchen red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwhich, I am God' sort of way.
~ Augusten Burroughs
oh my god, she couldn't help thinking. I have hairy legs and I'm going to die alone.
~ Cecily von Ziegesar
There is no such thing as solitude, nor anything that can be said to be alone and by itself but God, who is His own circle, and can subsist by Himself.
~ Thomas Browne
I worked with Paul McCartney for a while and saw what it does to you to be treated like a god for twenty years.
~ Tracey Ullman
...and you don't even have to sleep alone, you don't even have to sleep at all; and so, all you have to do is show the stick to the dog now and then and say, 'Thank God for nothing.'
~ William Faulkner
One phrase summarizes the horror of hell. "God isn't there."
~ Max Lucado
There is no one lonelier than God!
~ Rajneesh
Without my airplane I am an ordinary man, and a useless one - a trainer without a horse, a sculptor without marble, a priest without a god. Without an airplane I am a lonely consumer of hamburgers.
~ Richard Bach
God-forsaken is beautiful, too.
~ Richard Brautigan
But, dear God, don't listen to me. I'm an old lady in the middle of nowhere without a real toilet.
~ Deb Caletti
I have no TV, thank God. I haven't heard anything about Tom Cruise, except that he had a baby, I think.
~ Emmanuelle Beart
He who desires solitude is either an animal or a god.
~ Francis Bacon
That's the terrible part. I swear to God I'm a madman.
~ J. D. Salinger
I understand I have no place here. I understand I am lost in the god's eye. I understand I must find my purpose or I will go mad in this green, godless place.
~ Karen Miller
I've become one of those people who prowl around at night in their cars. God, I am the town's Boo Radley, just like in To Kill A Mockingbird.
~ Kathryn Stockett
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly
~ Paul Valery
Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle
~ Werner Herzog
I sometimes sit on my roof. Not to be closer to god. To be further from y'all.
~ Darnell Lamont Walker
I was extremely unpopular at school. Once the hardest kid in school beat me up and there was a plan for about 30 other kids to kick me in the face once I was down. Good times!
~ Oliver Sykes
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
~ Orson Welles
Take noise-cancelling headphones, a good book, and wear comfy clothes.
~ Greg Rutherford
I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.
~ Charles Bukowski