Quotes About Isolation

You are caught in an empty house, in a box, in a place that is not happy. You are trapped inside you and wherever you go, there you are.

The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.

What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce community and in many people hope and joy.

Karen Marie Moning, Darkfever

Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up.

Isolation is a gift. Everything else is just a test of your endurance. You will be alone with the Gods. Your nights will flame with fire.

Realness often stands alone but painfully just.© TyLeishia Douglass 2012 All Rights Reserved

Saul was hunched over his drink like it was a small fire.

I'll never understand ninety-nine percent of humanity. - Enoch

For every writer, there is a challenge of time that is only magnified in the solitude of the work.

Don't depend on anyone as your own shadow leaves you in darkness.

When you are in need, you are all alone indeed!

Leaving North Korea is not like leaving any other country. It is more like leaving another universe. I will never truly be free of its gravity, no matter how far I journey.

Only when one is connected to one's inner core is one connected to others. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through solitude.

Barefoot, exhausted and bloody, Harris Borden turned and left the underground prison that had been his home for the past twelve years and walked out into the Nevada desert.

We've been trapped in here, away from civilisation. We're wasting our lives away, waiting for something. But nothing's happened, and nothing is going to happen unless we help ourselves.

When feels that someone puts you aside, sometimes thinks in an act of selfishnessbut always its really to have afraid of something worst.

This existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.

Inside her head or out in the desert was the same, and the air inside her throat was very dry to keep from crying and her neck sore from forcing herself not to look down, not to look back.

Snow is like a wide sea. One could go out and be lost in it and forget the world, and oneself.

Strange... The more I befriend my solitude, the more people desire my company.

Film makes me feel less alone in the world.

Solitude is an unmarked place beyond the borders of the map, a place where most fear to tread. It's no surprise, then, that this is where the greatest secrets and most valuable treasures are hidden.

Jenna, standing in the doorway with her mouth and hand full of shelled pistachios, says, '"Real' is a dirty word in this place'.