Quotes About Isolation

How quickly people can forget you, until they want something from u" and when they are done with you, you are not even a stranger but an invisible person who doesn't even exist.

The more man realises his humanity, the lonelier he feels.

Religions have depended on the relative isolation and ignorance of their flocks, forever and this is all breaking down.

The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to.

It is not the business of religion in these days to isolate herself from the world like John the Baptist. She must go down into the world like Jesus Christ.

First inclination is to become a monk and leave the situation.

Religion is what a man does with his solitariness.

In all things I would have the island of a man inviolate. Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all round Olympus. No degree of affection need invade this religion.

No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'

With addiction, a client's fears can be ripened into some very pleasing fruit: Irritability, suspiciousness, isolation, paranoia, and finally on to that grand banana —the fear of Fear itself.

My cigarettes and I are going outside. At least they show me respect.

If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.

The productivity of social cooperation surpasses in every respect the sum total of the production of isolated individuals.

If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.

There is something very romantic about the orphan figure in American literature.

New York was not a romantic city at [80th]. Nobody knows who you are and you don't have to care about anybody else. It's a very cold city, I should say.

mnY reason of b"kup, but it hurts moRe when you don"t know evN a single-1.

It's a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies.

I was always sad as a child, for as long as I can think back. I hated crowds of people, and used to sit in a corner by myself, just thinking.

Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and that one broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. Sad, sad, sad.

Music is so powerful to me. I had my IPod and headphones, and my sad playlist. I kind of ventured off for just a little bit to get into the scene.

I was never interested in what everybody else was interested in. I was very interiorized. I always felt kind of sad.