Quotes About Isolation

You have removed my beloved and my friend; darkness is my closest companion.

All who pass by plunder him; he has become a reproach to his neighbors.

I lie awake; I am like a lone bird on a housetop.

Look to my right and see; no one attends to me. There is no refuge for me; no one cares for my soul.

He who isolates himself pursues selfish desires; he rebels against all sound judgment.

Wealth attracts many friends, but a poor man is deserted by his friend.

All the brothers of a poor man hate him—how much more do his friends avoid him! He may pursue them with pleading, but they are nowhere to be found.

A man burdened by bloodguilt will flee into the Pit; let no one support him.

Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field until no place is left and you live alone in the land.

Like a hunted gazelle, like a sheep without a shepherd, each will return to his own people, each will flee to his native land.

The city of chaos is shattered; every house is closed to entry.

They will be gathered together like prisoners in a pit. They will be confined to a dungeon and punished after many days.

Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourselves a little while until the wrath has passed.

A thousand will flee at the threat of one; at the threat of five you will all flee, until you are left alone like a pole on a mountaintop, like a banner on a hill.

When I look, there is no one; there is no counselor among them; when I ask them, they have nothing to say.

So now hear this, O lover of luxury who sits securely, who says to herself, ëI am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or know the loss of children.í

You were secure in your wickedness; you said, ëNo one sees me.í Your wisdom and knowledge led you astray; you told yourself, ëI am, and there is none besides me.í

sitting among the graves, spending nights in secret places, eating the meat of pigs and polluted broth from their bowls.

I looked, and no man was left; all the birds of the air had fled.

If only I had a travelerís lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.

So Jeremiah went into a cell in the dungeon and remained there a long time.

Rise up, advance against a nation at ease, one that dwells securely,” declares the LORD. “They have no gates or bars; they live alone.

Her cities have become a desolation, a dry and arid land, a land where no one lives, where no son of man passes through.

They wandered blind in the streets, defiled by this blood, so that no one dared to touch their garments.