Quotes About Isolation

There are worse places to be than on your own.

Loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern age, so full of freedom, independence, and our own egotistical selves.

Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent." Bill Clinton "The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.

The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.

How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence.

Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help.

When you're completely free, you're also completely on your own.

Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him.

Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. Only when one is connected to one's own core is.

Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you.

Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.

The virtuous soul that is alone and without a master is like a long lone burning coal; it will grow colder rather than hotter.

When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.

Puberty was very vague. I literally locked myself in a room and played guitar.

Everyone has left me except my muse, that good nurse. She stays in my hand, a mild white mouse.

The bigger the crowd, the more negligible the individual.

When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.