Quotes About Isolation

In order not to fall into isolation we have to be established in the house of God and focus on serving Him

Legends are born in solitude. Idiots are born in packs.

The lonely road to greatness is better than the crowded road to mediocrity.

It is never crowded at the mountaintop.

Loneliness means when you have no one to celebrate your success with and share your pains.

Even a witch wants sympathy.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world--without friends or country, home or kindred.

As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.

Your world is just as empty as your heart!

I recognized exactly where she was—that state where you're able to hold it together as long as absolutely no one talks to you or touches you with any amount of sympathy.

The messages must be stuck somewhere in the tube of light underneath the ocean that connects London and New York.

The teachers thought there was something wrong with me because I wouldn't talk to other kids. I was almost playing mind games with them.

loneliness is a great teacher and a master test of character

We expect more from technology and less from each other. We create technology to provide the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.

I've invented Twofacebook, the antisocial network. You start being friends w/entire world & defriend people one by one.

is morbid individualism that turns crises into tragedies.

Sounds of four o'clock in the morning come to him through the window: the swish of a sprinkler on the lawn, broken cries of alarm from a parked car that can no longer bear its loneliness, the low weeping of a man in the next-door apartment, on the other side of the wall, the shriek of a nightbird nearby that can perhaps already see what is hidden from you and me.

He always imagined that silence was somehow directed against him. Or that it was his fault.

just to break the silence. He always imagined that silence was somehow directed against him. Or that it was his fault.

Nessuno vuole restare senza stormo, o essere separato dal gregge. Ti allontani una volta o due dallo sciame - e vedi che non ti lasciano più tornare. Perchè ormai, ti sei ammalato di nitrillo.

Ta je planina bila naš susjed iza zida - težak, zatvoren i bezglasan susjed, vremešna i melankoli?na planina s navikama starog neženje koji uvijek održava potpunu tišinu, tako pristojna planina, zimska, koja nikad ne pomi?e namještaj, ne prima goste, ne bu?i i ne smeta, no kroz naše zajedni?ke zidove uvijek su prodirali, kao lak i uporan miris plijesni, hladno?a, mrak, tišina i vlaga turobnoga susjeda.

Forse perché la derisione è una forma di difesa per chi la usa, contro il pericolo della solitudine? Perché si deride in compagnia, mentre chi suscita il riso resta immancabilmente da solo?

You might even say I loved my punishment of solitary confinement. Whoever doesn't need other human beings, Father quoted Aristotle, must be a god or an animal. For hours on end, I enjoyed being both. I didn't mind.