Quotes About Isolation

My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.

Even little boys scorn me; when I appear, they deride me.

If I go east, He is not there, and if I go west, I cannot find Him.

In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves in, never to experience the light.

Far from human habitation he cuts a shaft in places forgotten by the foot of man. Far from men he dangles and sways.

They were banished from among men, shouted down like thieves,

so that they lived on the slopes of the wadis, among the rocks and in holes in the ground.

They cried out among the shrubs and huddled beneath the nettles.

They abhor me and keep far from me; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.

Yet no one stretches out his hand to a ruined man when he cries for help in his distress.

I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.

because I greatly feared the crowds and the contempt of the clans terrified me, so that I kept silent and would not go outside—

He is secure in his ways at all times; Your lofty judgments are far from him; he sneers at all his foes.

He says to himself, “God has forgotten; He hides His face and never sees.”

Among all my enemies I am a disgrace, and among my neighbors even more. I am dreaded by my friends—they flee when they see me on the street.

I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.

My beloved and friends shun my disease, and my kinsmen stand at a distance.

But like a deaf man, I do not hear; and like a mute man, I do not open my mouth.

I am like a man who cannot hear, whose mouth offers no reply.

“A vile disease has been poured into him; he will never get up from where he lies!”

I am forsaken among the dead, like the slain who lie in the grave, whom You remember no more, who are cut off from Your care.

You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths.

You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.

All day long they engulf me like water; they enclose me on every side.