Quotes About Isolation

A lonely fir-tree is standing On a northern barren height; It sleeps, and the ice and snow-drift Cast round it a garment of white.

And here I am, strapped into a tree, a stone's throw from the biggest idiot in the games.

Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade. So it is with despotism.

On the tree, Future, we build our nest; and in our solitude eagles shall bring us nourishment in their beaks!

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?

there was not a tree on the place, only the horrible prickly pear bushes thrusting out their distorted arms as if exulting in their own nakedness.

A lot of people prefer to be alone. They would rather be a palm tree on an island. I don't get it.

I found it hard to make friends in school, because I was a cerebral person.

And he did see--that life was rotten, that there were no heroes, really, and that you couldn't trust anybody, not even yourself.

The gift economy represents a shift from consumption to contribution, transaction to trust, scarcity to abundance and isolation to community.

I fear we might be losing the basic human facility to be alone - and with that you throw out independent decision-making, what to trust, what not to trust; key stuff - a perilous loss.

There's nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.

I ask myself, who do i trust? Then i answered, No-one

The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.

The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation.

The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.

Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.

I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.

I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray that finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible to him.

Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.

The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door.

If my work has a theme, I suspect it is a simple one: that most human beings are inescapably alone, and therein lies their tragedy.

Twas better to be alone than to be left alone.

the women are drinking and laughing inside somewhere, Wallis guesses, as manless as these men are without women.