Quotes About Isolation

These displaced persons are mostly unwanted where they fled from; unwanted where they are, in refugee camps; and unwanted where they want to go.

By now the only part of me now seating were my eyeballs.

But after the bottle was empty sometime that night, I was finally left with nothing but myself and my thoughts, devious cabdrivers that took me where I did not want to go. Now

Something about the fraternal atmosphere of a billiards hall reassured the soul. The isolated pool of light over a table of green felt was an indoor hydroponic zone where what grew was the prickly plant of masculine emotion, too sensitive for sunlight and fresh air.

while pain is universal, it is also utterly private.

But after the bottle was empty sometime that night, I was finally left with nothing but myself and my thoughts, devious cabdrivers that took me where I did not want to go.

We were the unwanted, the unneeded, and the unseen, invisible to all but ourselves. And you are so happy you don't know whether to laugh or cry.

If you should speak to anyone affected by a mental illness, the chances are that you will hear stories of hidden suffering, shame, and discrimination in nearly every sector of their lives.

But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they merely make me pant with the effort of holding them up for a few minutes. But if they're good, I turn into a social moron for days, refusing to go out of my room, scowling and growling at interruptions, ignoring weddings and funerals, and making enemies out of friends. I still bear the scars of Middlemarch.

Being alone by oneself is much better than being alone with another.

Even if you are in paradise, it is still hell if you are all alone.

Every man for himself and the Devil for all.

Loneliness is worse but the worst kind of loneliness is when you are in a crowd of people.

Much money, many friends; little money, no friends.

Solitude is the nest of thoughts.

Solitude is the only thing that will never help you make your character.

The person with no friends is not alone, he is very alone.

When a man is not wanted in the village, he is always accused of raising dust even when he falls in a pool of water.

You appreciate some people most when they deprive you of the pleasure of their company.

If we were to get any of them to talk, I knew, we would have to separate them. There was a cohesion, a kind of

But now I feel off the grid. I feel that I am not part of the culture. And because I don't have a car I don't really go anywhere to buy things. In fact, I have been in a slow process of selling and giving away everything I own.

It is quite obvious that you do not understand me, and in all probability, you never will.

There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way.