Quotes About Isolation

The ability to see the future can be a burden, and the younger you are and the more isolated you feel, maybe the more of a burden it is.

I suddenly feel left out of a future that isn't even going to happen.

You occupied my space. But because you were not in my present, when I looked into my future I saw . . . nothing. Isn't that sad? And stupid?

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages.

For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

In this age of crowds in which I have determined to be a solitary, perhaps the greatest sin would be to lament the presence of people on the threshold of my solitude.

The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.

I could tell that my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.

One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

The loneliest woman in the world is the woman without a close woman friend.

No one ever kills himself for the love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.

Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet.

Distance seems to be bad for some but not for me. It gives solitude and space. It tests patience, endurance and faith. It proves the real worth of someone as it scales the value of a person.

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.

Sometimes, people who are thousands of miles away can make you feel better than people right beside you.

Most people say that love hurts. I say that loneliness hurts more ...

Mystic grimoirs, walking corpses... I'm so far out of my wheelhouse that I might as well be on the moon.

Right now, I've got the weight of several worlds on my shoulders. My best friend is living in a cancer ward, and there's nothing I can do for him. The Serpents have hired the Jester to spark race riots with faked news stories, and I don't know how to smoke him out. My enemies are hiding all around, watching everything I do, and I can't find them. For the first time in months I find myself in the familiar, paralyzing grip of overwhelming depression.

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Here then at long last is my darkness. No cry of light, no glimmer, not even the faintest shard of hope to break free across the hold.

I'd rather live at peace and be lonely than live in the midst of crowds and have people hate me.

I'd rather live at peace and be lonely than live in the midst of crowds and have people hate me. That way I can make sure that only the ones who trust me will come to visit.