Quotes About Isolation

They died, leaving behind the kind of void that is never filled, a relentless ache that follows an abandoned child throughout her entire life. And

turned out, a giant well of emptiness had always existed inside me. A void so deep and black and ugly, I wasn't just empty, I was hollowed out by the losses in my life. Until there were days I didn't dare go outside because I worried the wind would blow me away. The pills became my

can't do this. I suck at this. Which is why they're making me go. Not to improve my swimming—who cares about that?—but to work on that whole playing-well-with-others thing. Another one of my broken bits. I don't want to socialize with other kids. I don't trust 'em, I don't like 'em, and best I can tell, the feeling's mutual.

I wonder if that's how I look to others; like I'm normal and functional, too, when in fact, I feel completely emptied out.

Being a survivor didn't just mean being strong. It meant being lonely.

She had this conversation with herself once a year. Generally, right about now, when the holidays were looming and people were talking excitedly about family gatherings, and she went home each night to an empty condo that seemed much emptier than it did in spring-filled May or hot, sunny August.

Solitude is sometimes best society.

I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.

Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of that uselessness. They have no place. They are private, isolated - and hopeless.

Selsdon Man is designing a system of society for the ruthlessness and the pushing, the uncaring. His message to the rest is: you're out on your own.

I endeavored to renounce society, that I might avoid temptation. But it was a poor religion; so far as it prevailed, only tended to make me gloomy, stupid, unsociable, and useless.

Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign.

Solitude is sometimes the best society.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

As an elderly man, I have remained estranged from the society here.

Two people can form a community by excluding a third.

That which happens to the soil when it ceases to be cultivated by the social man happens to man himself when he foolishly forsakes society for solitude; the brambles grow up in his desert heart.

How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?

The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.

Nothing says 'dropping out of society' like learning the banjo.

Was it worse for him, Reynie wondered, to have felt loved and then rejected? Or was it worse to have always felt alone?

There is a society in the deepest solitude.

Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse.