Quotes About Isolation

The feeling I got from my research is that the victims of bombings end up becoming as alienated from the government as the terrorists who cause the attacks.

[Madame Nhu was] the Sandra Dee of South Vietnam. If I were cast on a desert island with her, I would quickly make friends with the natives.

The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation.

Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. You are still in great company.

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.

Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.

But none of that kept me from picturing what a tsunami might look like if it did rise up and roar toward my little boat like some watery blue version of the Great Wall of China.

How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude!

People like me, LB, the truly great ones ... we are always alone.

A great city is a great solitude.

Most people are enduring a marginalized isolation. One of the great obstacles to modern friendships is the 'religion of rush.' People are rushing all the time through time. Friendship takes time.

Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness.

Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she has nothing to do but to trade with them.

Once upon a time there was a lady. She had no children, and no happiness either. And at first she cried for a long time, but then she became wicked.

Everyone is alone and yet nobody can do without other people, not just because they are useful... but also when it comes to happiness.

That's how it is sometimes when we plunge into the depths of our lives. No one can accompany us, not even those who would give up their hearts for our happiness.

I guess I'm the Black Death,' he said slowly. 'I don't seem to bring people happiness any more.

Happiness isn't something this island yields easily; the ground is too rocky and the sun too sparse for it to flourish.

Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.

I like "Talk to Her" by [Pedro] Almodovar and "Happiness" by Todd Solondz, "Mullholland Drive" by David Lynch .

"I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others."

Always remember that you were once alone, and the crowd you see in your life today are just as unecessary as when you were alone.