Quotes About Isolation

In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.

After long enough, everyone in the world will be you enemy.

As a famous person you think how you're gonna end it, get away and have a normal life.

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

The donning of the ear buds marks the beginning of teen life, when children set off on their own for the passage through adolescence.

Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.

That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends.

On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.

But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.

I've always felt alienated. I realized that I've been terrified my entire life. So I can identify that fear which drives so many of the people that I write about.

A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.

People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring.

To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.

The world is come upon me, I used to keep it a long way off, But now I have been run over and I am in the hands of the hospital staff.

my friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost.

If you dwell in the darkness, you can see in the dark and look into the light. But in choosing the darkness, you know you are destined to walk alone.

Being alone can be good. It's easy to find peace alone. But sometimes, being alone is a king of death.

Not having a private life is hard.

Life is hard, we say. An oyster's life is worse. She lives motionless, soundless, her own cold ugly shape her only dissipation.

Offended vanity is the great separator in social life.

It's a great life, and Margaret and I are going to stay put above the Arctic Circle where we're happy.

I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and the only valuable things that happen in America happen in private life, because public life is a dead loss.

Three life lessons: 1.No one will see you. 2.No one will say anything. 3.No one will save you.

No human life, not even the life of the hermit in nature's wilderness, is possible without a world which directly or indirectly testifies to the presence of other human beings.