Quotes About Isolation

Willy: Figure it out. Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it, and there's nobody to live in it.

I'll tell u boys it's tough to be alone, and it's tough to love a doll that's not ur own.

He might say he had made a mistake in moving to this foreign city—it had seemed like a good idea in California, but now where else could he go?

Who would wave a flag to be rescued if they had a desert island of their own? That was the thing that spoilt Robinson Crusoe . In the end he came home. There never ought to be an end.

Lonely sunlight

I believe I am in Hell, therefore I am.

In the morning I had a look so lost, a face so dead, that perhaps those whom I met did not see me . - Bad Blood

To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.

There is some wisdom in taking a gloomy view, in looking upon the world as a kind of Hell, and in confining one's efforts to securing a little room that shall not be exposed to the fire.

A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.

That I could clamber to the frozen moon. And draw the ladder after me.

Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small.

in the end every one stands alone, and the important thing is who it is that stands alone.

Boredom is certainly not an evil to be taken lightly: it will ultimately etch lines of true despair onto a face. It makes beings with as little love for each other as humans nonetheless seek each other with such intensity, and in this way becomes the source of sociability.

Better alone than amongst traitors.

La solitude offre à l'homme intellectuellement haut placé un double avantage : le premier, d'être avec soi-même, et le second de n'être pas avec les autres.

Ein geistreicher Mensch hat, in gänzlicher Einsamkeit, an seinen eigenen Gedanken und Phantasien vortreffliche Unterhaltung, während von einem Stumpfen die fortwährende Abwechslung von Gesellschaften, Schauspielen, Ausfahrten und Lustbarkeiten, die marternde Langeweile nicht abzuwenden vermag.

A solidão é a sorte de todos os espíritos excepcionais.

Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else

It is the monotony of his own nature that makes a man find solitude intolerable.

If he has a soul above the common, or if he is a man of genius, he will occasionally feel like some noble prisoner of state, condemned to work in the galleys with common criminals; and he will follow his example and try to isolate himself.

Were I a King, my prime command would be—Leave me alone.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls

A man can be himself, only so long as he is alone