Quotes About Isolation

Absolute solitude is on this showing the ineluctable destiny of the soul. Only our bodies can meet.

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

Canada's Far North is where I knew I had to go.

No one is so accursed by fate, no one so utterly desolate, but some heart though unknown responds unto his own.

Alone.'Twas her destiny to be ever surrounded by others, yet ever alone.

If the world is where we hide from ourselves, what do we do when the world is no longer accessible? We invent a false name, invent a destiny, purchase a firearm through the mail.

I have seen or heard of no other man whom destiny treated with such enmity as it did Philoktetes

The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people.

The best way to kill someone is from the inside, by crushing their hopes and dreams.

Every time my dreams threaten to become reality, something always happens and I end up alone.

Los Angeles is a sprawl of broken dreams and lost opportunities, disconnected souls and entertainment junkies. The sunny skies and graceful palms don't redeem jammed roadways to nowhere.

In my restless dreams, I see that town.Silent Hill.

There are no shadows in the Underdark. There is no room for imagination in the Underdark. It is a place for alertness, but not aliveness, a place with no room for hopes and dreams.

The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches--enduring loneliness.

One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.

I get really excited thinking about being in the world without a lot of people.

I don't really feel comfortable anywhere except when I'm working alone at home. It's exhausting to be out around people.

Exile is like death. You cannot understand it until it happens to you.

I would never write, ever. I might as well exile myself.

I guess I've been existing in my own head a lot.

When I was growing up, I don't think I knew any other child who had been out of Sri Lanka.

As a comedy writer, I work largely from home.

At school people laughed at me, not with me.

I don't have any friends; I just have lawyers.