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Quotes About Isolation

The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.
~ Eric Hoffer
A decent man would stand out like a cactus on an ice floe.
~ Timothy Egan
We had discovered an accursed country. We had found the Home of the Blizzard.
~ Douglas Mawson
I am truly a "lone traveler" and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart.
~ Albert Einstein
And there are new kinds of nomads, not people who are at home everywhere, but who are at home nowhere. I was one of them
~ Robyn Davidson
The years rolled slowly past and I found myself alone. Surrounded by strangers I thought were my friends, I found myself further and further from my home.
~ Bob Seger
I can't walk, so I can't go home. No need to talk, cause I'm all alone. If I stay here they're gonna lock me in, hitting the bottle again.
~ Waylon Jennings
The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.
~ C. L. R. James
I would spend my nights at home but if it means contention. I'd rather be alone tell the service man cut the phones.
~ Buju Banton
You don't blame us for being here, do you? After all, we have no place to go. No home... Incidentally, what an excellent day for an exorcism.
~ William Peter Blatty
I remember when I first started being in magazines, I had pretty thin skin. I was this nerd that read books and stayed home and didn't go out.
~ Winona Ryder
I never wanted to be home-schooled. I didn't like the idea of being home-schooled. It would only separate myself even further from the real world, and that's never what I wanted.
~ Asa Butterfield
I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity.
~ Franz Kafka
The premises are so delightfully extensive, that two people might live together without ever seeing, hearing or meeting.
~ Lord Byron
In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land.
~ Albert Camus
Unfriending me when I didn't even know we were friends? It's like breaking wind when you're home alone. If I can't smell you, knock yourself out.
~ George Takei
I start sweating and shaking and having panic attacks if I am not at home.
~ Daniel Johns
She wants to go home, but nobody's home. That's why she lies, broken inside. With no place to go, no place to go, to dry her eyes, broken inside.
~ Avril Lavigne
I'm just going to crumble like a wreck. I'll go home, become an alcoholic and maybe! jump of a bridge.
~ Gordon Strachan
We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.
~ Jane Austen
I think I'm a homebody. I don't talk to anyone. I sit at home, and no one asks me questions or I'm talking about goat noises.
~ Taylor Momsen
I'm not much of a golfer, I don't have any friends and all I like to do is go home and be alone, and not worry about ways not to lose.
~ Bear Bryant
Those of us with ravaged faces, lacking in the social graces, desperately remained at home, inventing lovers on the phone.
~ Janis Ian
I've been half-frozen for so long, it is as though the winter has set up home in my marrow.
~ Hannah Kent