Quotes About Isolation

loneliness is the inevitable cost of looking after ourselves.

I'm suddenly struck by the notion of how one becomes remote in one's own life.

O dark dark dark. It was always dark and it would always be dark and it always had been dark - or there would have been no need for the brightness of Marguerite's company.

Genes never work in isolation, and almost never have just one role.

It's strange how so much life can be lived without speaking

And I didn't mean to shut her out, but sometimes I did it anyway. I liked having power. Power is its own kind of magic.

There seemed to be an enormous space between them all the time at the moment and it was easier to bear if they weren't in the same room

Never get involved. That's my motto. I hurt no one. And no one can hurt me.

Mother Teresa once said, "Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted are the greatest poverty." To this I will add: Please believe that one single positive dream is more important than a thousand negative realities.

The Strong Man is Mightiest Alone.

His own fight for existence kills his sensibility for the misery of those who have been left behind.

Loneliness is not about how many people you have around. It's about whether or not you feel connected. Whether or not you're able to be yourself.

The lonely feeling comes from not feeling known.

I felt as if I were watching myself from above, unable to comprehend the happiness of the people around me.

Loneliness is not about how many people you have around. It's about whether or not you feel connected. Whether

But I also found my depression tedious—tedious to live through, tedious to explain, tedious to be around. I was bored by my own relentless loop and felt sure I was boring everyone around me.

Loneliness is not about how many people you have around. It's bout whether or not you feel connected. Whether or not you're able to be yourself.

Living in a vacuum sucks.

I can easily do without people (there are days when I could easily do without myself), and … in the country of books where I dwell, the dead can count entirely as much as the living.

We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out of control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation, show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us kinship where all is represented as separation." ( Defy the Space That Separates , The Nation, October 7, 1996)

You grieve in loneliness, and if I understand you fuck in loneliness.

The liar has many friends, and leads an existence of great loneliness.

I have a notion that genius knows itself; that Dickinson chose her seclusion, knowing she was exceptional and knowing what she needed.

If I'm lonely it's with the rowboat ice-fast on the shore in the last red light of the year that knows what it is, that knows it's neither ice nor mud nor winter light but wood, with a gift for burning