Quotes About Isolation

isolation without end was a dangerous thing.

Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.

What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude. The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge

There is a solitude which each and every one of us has always carried within. More inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains more profound than the midnight sea: the solitude of self.

I live in the crowds of jollity not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.

The only relationships that exist are based on truth. Everything else is just a mutual and isolating delusion.

We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of self.

Leaders when not leading are outcasts.

It's lonely at the top, so you better know why you are there.

Loneliness is a required course for leadership.

Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.

When they feel invisible, it's easy for them to leave.

Physically, teachers are often alone in their own classrooms with no other adults for company. Psychologically, they never are.

It's very different to live with a mask.

I hang around shepherds because I can't talk to sheep.

Like jilted and disappointed lovers, some of my students just want to be left alone.

Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.

I am learning how to be alone without being lonely; I am learning how to be lonely without losing my mind.

Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her.

Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

Do you know what it's like going through life being better than everybody? It's hard.

Life without you is like a broken pencil, there's no point.

My life is a dot lost among thousands of other dots.