Quotes About Isolation

I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.

It was easy not to think of my future; I didn't have one.

More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to be close to someone. More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to feel as if i wasn't alone.

The Meadow... Only one of them succeeded in making a life here... He weathered. Before a backdrop of natural beauty, he lived a life from which everything was taken but a place. He lived so close to the real world it almost let him in.

John: "Poor John. Who says poor John? Don't everybody sob at once! My God, if I went up in flames there's not a living soul who'd pee on me to put the fire out!" Richard: "Let's strike a flint and see.

You love nothing. You are incomplete. The human parts of you are missing. You're as dead as you are deadly.

His eyes measured the little chamber. How two people could survive in so small a space was as difficult to grasp as the conventions in contract bridge. Perhaps there was some simple key that would solve the problem, and he would have the subject of another book.

As they prepared themselves to go ashore no one doubted in theory that at least a certain percentage of them would remain on the island dead, once they set foot on it. But no one expected to be one of these. Still it was an awesome thought and as the first contingents came struggling up on deck in full gear to form up, all eyes instinctively sought out immediately this island where they were to be put, and left, and which might possibly turn out to be a friend's grave.

He was outcast from life's feast.

Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.

Among the lonely, you are perhaps the loneliest of all, You come so close to love. But it eludes you.

I sat on the concrete stump, collecting snow atop my dome, benumbed and befucked by my colossal overpowering lack of knowledge.

I felt defeated and dismayed. I trusted nobody, and I felt impotent-not only in the sexual sense.

Also, isolation leads to chronically lowered levels of the feel-good neurotransmitter serotonin. It is one of the bizarre ironies of major depression that being depressed causes people to withdraw from the most powerful antidepressant known - rich and varied social contact. However therein lies a rich lesson also - in some cases one of the quickest and most effective ways to reverse depression is to socialize.

Too much time alone had done something peculiar to his heart: A confused and unreliable organ at best, it now held something akin to joy.

There is no Beatitude for the lonesome. The Book doesn't say they are blessed.

James Leo Herlihy

Men who are cut off, careful, and closed are also lonely and just as vulnerable in a different way as their wives alone in a dark alley after midnight.

For Satan's purposes, making you a completely ineffective and isolated follower of Jesus is as much a success as keeping you lost in sin. Once

Of course God went after Jonah, inquiring gently, "Do you do well to be angry?"10 However, insane from isolation, Jonah answers remarkably, "Yes, I do well to be angry, angry enough to die."11 Wow!

Spending too much time in one's individual silo can produce pride, isolation, and a stagnated ministry.

The character of such a government ought to secure, first, against foreign invasion; secondly, against dissensions between members of the Union, or seditions in particular States; thirdly, to procure to the several States various blessings of which an isolated situation was incapable; fourthly, it should be able to defend itself against encroachment; and fifthly, to be paramount to the State Constitutions.

Sometimes, when we feel the greatest need to be alone, it's the moment we should most welcome the company of others.

He'd shot and beaten people because he couldn't talk to them.Violence was the only language nobody could understand. There were no translators.