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Quotes About Isolation

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.
~ Thomas Jefferson
The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.
~ Jasmine Guy
It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them.
~ Gilbert Parker
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
~ Dag Hammarskjold
If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
~ Samuel Johnson
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude
~ Henry David Thoreau
The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend
~ George Santayana
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything
~ Unknown
Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone
~ Maya Angelou
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking
~ Jessamyn West
The awkward moment when your friend crops you out of a photo.
~ Unknown
Who needs friends I stand alone.
~ Unknown
Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full of victims or enemies. It's no wonder Waltraud Wagner, the Austrian Angel of Death, convinced her friends to kill with her. It just seems natural. You and me against the world...
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I have no friends and no enemies - only competitors.
~ Aristotle Onassis
We become strong, I feel, when we have no friends upon whom to lean, or to look to for moral guidance.
~ Benito Mussolini
Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
~ Ambrose Bierce
I was a loner and never hung out with anyone. I never had any friends.
~ Richard Pryor
I have no friends and I never leave my house.
~ Megan Fox
Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
A great country worthy of the name does not have any friends.
~ Charles de Gaulle
Well, you don't get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parties and buddies. There were none of that for me. I didn't have friends when I was little. My brothers were my friends.
~ Michael Jackson
He who hath many friends hath none.
~ Aristotle
My friends, there are no friends.
~ Coco Chanel
He broke promises, was abusive physically and mentally, never was around and caused my life to be a living hell.
~ Unknown