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Quotes About Isolation

Who is everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
~ Seneca the Younger
No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.
~ Aphra Behn, The Rover
By the time the plane was airborne I'd forgotten England even existed.
~ Alex Garland
I'm particularly inspired by pristine locations. I enjoy working in areas where one can travel for miles without seeing any human influence.
~ Matt Smith
The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.
~ Jack Buck
You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don't attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
How does it feel, how does it feel to be without a home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone.
~ Bob Dylan
The various forms of despair at the various stations on the road.
~ Franz Kafka
Well there's floodin' down in Texas. All of the telephone lines are down. Well, I've been tryin' to call my baby, Lord, and I can't get a single sound.
~ Stevie Ray Vaughan
the loneliest place to be is a hotel room in a big city in early evening.
~ Willa Gibbs
Traveling around sure gets me down and lonely, nothing else to do but close my mind. I sure hope the road don't come to own me, there's so many dreams I've yet to find. But you're so far away.
~ Carole King
You never read about the real pain. It lives where no word can travel.
~ Vanna Bonta
We are so many and many within themselves travel to far islands but no one asks for their story.
~ Denise Levertov
Living the rest of my life in Kerobokan, waiting to die, was what I had in front of me.
~ S.A. Tawks, Mule
The more you get set into your own world, the smaller your world becomes.
~ J.R. Rim
Honestly, if I stay on this gruelling path, I'm going to end up as another suicide statistic.
~ S.A. Tawks, Misadventurous
New Yorkers are so impersonal if it wasn't for muggings there wouldn't be any contact at all!
~ Robert Orben
Ask the dust on the road! Ask the Joshua trees standing alone where the Mojave begins. Ask them about Camilla Lopez, and they will whisper her name.
~ John Fante
This place of mine never is entered by humans come for conversation, only by the mute moon's light shafts that slip in between the trees.
~ Saigy?
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to see it, do the other trees make fun of it?
~ Steven Wright
I was a pebble. I was a leaf. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything to me.
~ Cheryl Strayed
Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.
~ Fay Wray
People bore me. Film people particularly bore me. I prefer talking to my trees
~ Kishore Kumar
I am the last leaf on the tree, and the wind is blowing.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley