Quotes About Isolation

In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food-outside are only great stretches of freedom.

Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.

There are days when I think: what if I just checked out? What if I grew a beard and went off to live somewhere remote? I have often wondered about the freedom that would bring.

Prussia: freedom of movement with a muzzle. Austria: an isolation cell in which screaming is allowed.

The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom.

Alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know

I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me.

Privacy IS freedom. Leave us alone!

The great thing, as a screenwriter, is that you are always proud of what ends up on the screen, you are able to create something in isolation and you have a lot of freedom.

To be free, a man must be free from his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

Freedom of being alone is intoxicating.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

A day without a friend is like a pot without a single drop of honey left inside.

To be alone means that you avoid bad company. But to have a true friend is better than being alone.

The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.

To be depressed is to be lonely; to have a friend is to be happy.

I haven't any close friends. Friendship needs time to interact, sit down, gossip. I don't have that time.

Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.

A fav'rite has no friend!

Can you understand how cruelly I feel the lack of friends who will believe in me a bit?

To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).

Oh Dear! How unfortunate I am not to have anyone to weep with!

One doesn't know, till one is a bit at odds with the world, how much one's friends who believe in one rather generously, mean to one.

The good thing about being Dr. Frankenstein is that you can always make new friends.