Quotes About Isolation

I wouldn't say I'm a social hermit, but pretty close to that.

Since 'Huckleberry Finn,' or thereabouts, it seemed that all American literature was about the alienated hero.

One of the things that happens in our regular lives is that when we're in moments of pain or feeling alone, we may hesitate to reach out to others because we may think - they're not going through the same experiences I am.

Hey, you must be doin' good, 'cause I never hear from you.

I'm a loner. I like to hide a lot.

I usually feel that I prefer to hide from people.

When people are acutely depressed, many of them seem to want to hide.

I'm going to hide - I always do on my birthday, I never celebrate birthdays.

Many feel the need to hide their problems from their school friends, work colleagues and even members of their own family.

I come from a background of hiding everything behind a computer.

My day is spent hiding from people.

I wanted to get through high school anonymously.

I had a band and I didn't go to high school, all my friends were older than me. It was pretty cool to have such a focus at that age, but also it alienated me from a lot of people my age. So I felt pretty lonely and I didn't really have many friends when I was a kid.

I felt highly anxious in a way that I didn't think other children were.

I'm just a guy up on a hill writing.

For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

It was foolish indeed - thus to run farther and farther from all who could help her, as if she had been seeking a fit spot for the goblin creature to eat her in at his leisure; but that is the way fear serves us: it always sides with the thing we are afraid of.

The church grew very lonely about him, and he began to feel like a child whose mother has forsaken it. Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken.

For the absence of human companionship in bestial forms; the loss of green fields, free to her as to the winds of heaven, and of country sounds and odours; and an almost constant sense of oppression from the propinquity of one or another whom she had cause to fear, were speedily working sad effects upon her.

What a hell of horror, I thought, to wander alone, a bare existence never going out of itself, never widening its life in another life, but, bound with the cords of its poor peculiarities, lying an eternal prisoner in the dungeon of its own being! I

It is not by driving away our brother that we can be alone with God.

He must be cut off from the past, just as he must be cut off from foreign countries, because it is necessary for him to believe that he is better off than his ancestors and that the average level of material comfort is constantly rising.

He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.

If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies. The sealed world in which he lives would be broken, and the fear, hatred, and self-righteousness on which his morale depends might evaporate. It is therefore realized on all sides that however ofter Persia, or Egypt, or Java, or Ceylon may change hands, the main frontiers must never be crossed by anything except bombs.