Quotes About Isolation

He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.

He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.

Mountaineering is one of the most difficult sports - we are away from routine life for days, living in tents, and it requires high degree of physical and mental strength.

While strength is the natural quality of an individual seen in isolation, power springs up between men when they act together and vanishes the moment they disperse.

I'd walk and think about my entire life. I'd find my strength again, far from everything that had made my life ridiculous.

The farther down the road you go the tougher they get and I live at the end of the road!

My doom and my strength is to be solitary.

I give myself strength by staying away from any music.

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

Due to success I started losing friends.

Success Corrupts and Limits Potential as Soon as You Start to Think You Could Do It Alone.

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.

It is my private life which no one knows anything about, nor ever will. It needs more than half my time if it is to be a success.

Failure has no friends.

Success, to me, is helping one person or many people counter the isolation and pseudoconnectivity of our lives by boosting their ability to connect to themselves and to others.

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.

Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

Whether I get on in the world is a question; but I certainly don't get on very well with the world.

In Hollywood, after you get a little success, the next thing you usually get is a divorce.

The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.

Personally, emotionally, I'd rather divorce myself from the world than face the heartbreak of partial success. Because partial success implies overwhelming failure.

Outward success alienates a man from himself.