Quotes About Isolation

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can't be locked up with anyone for too long.

Be good and you'll be lonesome

The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.

I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.

My advice to you is please don't ever sit in your room and lock yourself away because you don't think you're good enough.

Consider well before you immerse yourself in solitude whether your own company will be good for you.

A day in which you do goodness far away from the crowds is indeed a very good day!

I'm not a good businessman and I don't promote myself particularly well. It's best I don't talk to anybody lest I alienate myself.

I really don't feel good about leaving my house anymore. I don't feel really good about being anywhere in New York City alone anymore.

To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good fortune indeed.

There's no one on the island telling them they're not good enough, so they just go ahead and sing and paint and write.

As the president, you're pretty much in a bubble. And golf is a good way to get out of the bubble.

Dying in unfamiliar surroundings miles away from home, it cannot possibly be good. There is a great sadness about that I think.

I didn't have a good childhood because I never could get along with other kids. I was the child that sat in the corner eating lunch by herself.

I used to come here on my own sometimes... Id' stay down here for ages." Her voice was barely audible. "It's a good place for sadness.

It was like the entire world was colluding to make me feel insane, and it was doing a really good job.

When I'm writing solitude feels very good. But when I'm not writing it feels lonely... Having a big family solves that problem.

Anywhere that I can't check my email is a good place to write!

Even a good place gets to be a rut, especially if you're standing in it alone... Alone and lonely have the same root.

loneliness can fly a helicopter through a cut-out shape of a helicopter the same size as the helicopter and that's it's only skill and it isn't good enough but it's still amazing.

I used to live an isolated existence, even in relationships, but now my family knows me for who I really am. Mostly, that's a good thing.

Oh, poverty parts good company.

So if North Korea continues present isolation, then with such economic difficulties the North Korean government must meet a very serious situation in the future.

When you are facing the wilderness on your own, you have a totally different attitude to someone who works in government or who has a monthly cheque.