Quotes About Isolation

Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors.

Although I am a gregarious person, I love solitude even more.

Be like an alone peak high in the sky. Why should you hanker to belong? You are not a thing! Things belong!

What exile from his country is able to escape from himself?

From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.

If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled.

Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!

The night comes on that knows not morn, When I shall cease to be all alone, To live forgotten, and love forlorn.

My love life doesn't stink; it's nonexistent.

I love isolation. It's very important for me to have time and space to myself when I can sit and read or write as well as paint. It's all part of the process.

Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently

I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.

In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?

the lonliest sound in the world is other people making love.

She had nothing in this world but her two hands and her crazy love for Jesus, who seemed, for his part, never to have heard of her.

I frequently lock myself in my studio. I do not often see the people I love, and in the end I shall suffer for it... painting is one's private life.

To the resentment that hides inside love, to the loneliness that hides among companions.

I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.

The traits of our sexual culture are still speechlessness, loneliness, violence and not enough desire and love.

My friends are gone and my hair is grey. I ache in places I used to play. And I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on. I'm just paying my rent every day in the tower of song.

"Et Tu, Babe" was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer's life was solitary and insular, and I was happy with that. I love reading and writing, it's my whole life.

The birth of love is always accompanied by the idea of solitude. A single being appears, and the rest of the world grows empty.

It is very possible that I could have ended up on 80 acres of land by myself, and fallen in love at a distance with a gorgeous woman I could never have been with.

The struggle of my life created empathy... I could relate to pain... being abandoned... having people not love me.