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Quotes About Isolation

I don't have friends. Before I can't without friends.
~ Mario Fingarov
But he was absolutely alone. No one ever wrote to him. Visited him. Totally alone. And I believe the happiest man I have ever met.
~ John Fowles, The Magus
Those of us with illnesses are the holders of the silent fears of those with good health.
~ Elisabeth Tova Bailey
Jail has become the biggest mental health hospital.
~ Steven Magee
I should kill myself. Things would be better if I did. For me anyway. I don't know how it would affect global warming or penguins in Antarctica. But it might help me.
~ Noah Cicero
However, when we are depressed, being reminded of other people's suffering only serves to increase our self-hatred.
~ Dorothy Rowe
Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you.
~ Octavia Butler
All of my peers died of AIDS, and I have no one to celebrate my past or my journey, or to help me pass down stories to the next generation. We lost an entire generation of storytellers with HIV.
~ David Mixner
When she needed help most, she was abandoned--and only when she offered help to others was she beloved.
~ Matthew Quick
By circumstance and perhaps also by inclination, I think in complete intellectual isolation. To expect others to help me think seems to me almost like expecting them to help me digest my food.
~ Eric Hoffer
I knew that even if I was able to call for help, I was in a place so remote that it wasn't likely there would be anyone who could help me. And even if there were, it could take weeks.
~ Abby Sunderland
When she needed help most, she was abandoned.
~ Matthew Quick
Jesus, Jesus help me. I'm alone in this world.
~ Bono
Maddie: Now it's just me against the world, and it's the loneliest feeling ever.
~ Dixon, Ruby
Don't depend on anyone too much. Even your shadow leaves when it's dark.
~ Anonymous
If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.
~ Martha Beck
A pod in the Matrix is looking pretty good right now.
~ Catherine McKenzie, Forgotten
With each day that our huge ship was on the ocean, my sense of being further and further away from my loved ones, my home, and my environment grew stronger.
~ Tilly Dunn, Exit Stage Left
Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from outside, is available, once the sheer isolation of the Earth becomes known, a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.
~ Fred Hoyle
I don't know about birds nor do I know the history of fire. But I believe that my solitude should have wings
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
I couldn't say who I am, I haven't the remotest notion of myself; I am someone without antecedents, without a history, without a country, and on that I insist!
~ Peter Handke
Fischer prefers to enter Chess history alone
~ Miguel Najdorf
I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves.
~ Susan Griffin
The American people are not cowardly. But, living in prosperous isolation, they have been the spoiled children of modern history.
~ Herman Wouk