Quotes About Isolation

She drowned in words that could not teach her how to swim.

One of the advantages of living in the Ice Age would be that there are not very many people around. You're constantly moving, and you have to live by your wits. You can't just have fifteen different kinds of tools, you can't carry them. And no villages—no village idiots. Imagine a world free of idiots!" Idiots, he liked to point out, "don't survive in environments with lions.

When we are young we fear we are not alone in the dark, When we grow up we fear we are

It is better to be alone than to become a person that loses his soul to the fear of loneliness.

Fear gripped her like hands around the neck, the way it could only happen in an unfamiliar room in the pitch black of night.

When you build a fence around yourself, you'll wonder why people are afraid to approach you, because the pride in the fence is the cause of your blindness.

In solitude every fear, every longing, becomes exaggerated.

Smartphones are tools which fools fiddle with when they are around people that they don't have the courage, or, the intellect, to converse with.

Finance that only talks to itself & deals with each other becomes socially useless

Hell is other people at breakfast.

No one checked to see if I had a place to live or food to eat, and at 14, I found myself basically on my own.

Why do babies starve /When there's enough food to feed the world /Why when there's so many of us /Are there people still alone

If I were ever stranded on a desert island, there would be 3 things I'd need: food, shelter, and a grip.

There was nowhere to sit except the bunk, which was covered with rotting food, and a wooden stool, upon which sat a large fur-covered lump—an old cheese, perhaps, or a dead cat.

Although he never speaks of how or what or why, I know that his childhood was difficult, that his parents broke his heart. Books and excess poundage are his insulation against pain.

Don't let the sun go down on me.

My brain must have felt sorry for me, so it'd created the only type of guy I could touch - a fantasy one.

If one by one we counted people out

I had crossed de line of which I had so long been dreaming. I was free; but dere was no one to welcome me to de land of freedom, I was a stranger in a strange land.

Freedom' is the most expensive possession there is; it has to be paid for with loneliness.

We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person.

Loneliness is a prerequisite for freedom. Freedom depends on the ability to reflect, and reflection can only begin when one is alone.

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.

There is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it.