Quotes About Isolation

Prayer is an end to isolation. It is living our daily life with someone with him who alone can deliver us from solitude.

There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.

Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.

When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.

When people wear you out, spend some time in isolation with Allah and your relationship with Him will improve as well as with the people.

You cannot succeed by yourself. It's hard to find a rich hermit.

Every single person in my life and every relationship I have is distant because all I do is music.

People are islands,' she said. 'They don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married for fifty years.

In me, by myself, without human relationship, there are no visible lies. The limited circle is pure.

You've been cold to me so long, I'm crying icicles instead of tears.

Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.

At this moment I do not have a personal relationship with a computer.

Everybody's friend is nobody's.

Isolation and loneliness create the conditions for rapid aging. The key is to stay connected and open to new relationships throughout your life.

I'm not alone, but I am lonely without you.

Driving a cab is not really a nurturing type of relationship. You take people and they tip you, they may not tip you, you don't know their names, they don't care about you, you don't care about them.

We read to know we're not alone.

All the fear in the world, and the violence that comes from the fear, and the hatred that comes from the violence, and the lonliness that comes from the hatred. All the unhappiness, all the cruelty, it gathers like clouds in the air, and grows dark and cold and heavy, and falls like grey snow in thick layers over the land. Then the world is muffled and numb, and no one can hear each other or feel each other. Think how sad and lonely that must be.

In this passionately social world, loneliness dogged the spirit. People were constantly "getting together," but they never really got there…For everyone searched his neighbor's eyes for the image of himself, and never saw anything else. Or if he did, he was outraged and terrified.

The universe now appeared to me as a void wherein floated rare flakes of snow, each flake a universe.

Solitude is the beginning of all freedom.

You don't blame us for being here, do you? After all, we have no place to go. No home... Incidentally, what an excellent day for an exorcism...

He started his engine and turned on the windshield wipers in time to see a tall old man stepping out of the cab. He paid the driver, then turned and stood motionless under a misty streetlamp's glow, staring up at a window of the house like a melancholy traveler frozen in time. As