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Quotes About Isolation

I, who so love a hermit life for a good part of the day, find myself living in public, and almost losing my identity.
~ Elizabeth Blackwell
And all I loved, I loved alone.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
My favourite country is Finland because once you get to a certain point, you can drive for hours without seeing a single person. I love peace and quiet - something I don't get very often.
~ Christopher Lee
There is something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on earth but not quite.
~ John C. Reilly
If the mind loves solitude, it has thereby acquired a loftier character, and it becomes still more noble when the taste is indulged in.
~ Wilhelm von Humboldt
When the people you love are gone, you're alone.
~ Keanu Reeves
Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.
~ Russell Baker
You are alone with everything you love.
~ Novalis
No matter how many times she was told that she was loved, there was no recognition that the proof was in the abandonment.
~ Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Being with him was like being alone underwater - everything was slow; nothing counted; I could not be harmed; I would feel dry and cold when I resurfaced.
~ Ben Marcus
One night of love don't make up for six nights alone. But I'd rather have one than none Lord, cause I'm flesh and bone.
~ Waylon Jennings
I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness.
~ Wilbur Smith
I love to live alone in my own little cottage, where I can spend much time in prayer, etc
~ David Brainerd
Yogis love to be alone.
~ Dharma Mittra
Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable.
~ Stevie Smith, Selected Poems
I love tranquil solitude.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
When you love, deeply love another human being, really deeply, somewhere you will feel that you are still alone, and this very beloved human being has no access.
~ Irina Tweedie
May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
~ Franz Kafka
First you fall in love with Antarctica, and then it breaks your heart.
~ Kim Stanley
Hell is the inability to love.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
A great love is an absolute isolation and an absolute absorption.
~ Ouida
So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God.
~ Saint Patrick
Falling in love is like submerging beneath the ocean with a submarine; you leave the outside world and wander in the silence of dimness.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
It seems like everywhere I go I can't get real love.
~ Lil' Kim