Quotes About Isolation

Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn't now, I couldn't give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had the long road back to the campus before me.

I'm not going to sacrifice love, real love, for any *%@$n' war or any friend, or any business, because in the end you're alone at night.

Is it a shame that I can't accept love? Am I too burned out to move towards what will keep me alive or too smart to get pulled into someone else's world?

It's difficult for me to be around anyone for longer than an hour. Love, death, elation, sorrow, I just don't care all that much about any of it. I am at this point, more of an observer/journalist.

I love driving, but I like driving on a two lane road where you can drive for hours and not see anybody.

The sides are steep and the nights are long and cold down in the hole, light and love and the world above mean nothing to the mole.

It's not so," I said. "And how long do you think it will sustain you, feeling and seeing and touching and tasting, if there is no love? No one with you?

After all who doesn't wish to make a spectacle of their loneliness

I have had no true friends, only lovers.

For was that all, she thought bleakly, that love ever was? Something that saved one from loneliness? A sort of insurance policy against not counting?

I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment.

How terrible it was to love people when you could not really share their lives!

Though a man excels in everything, unless he has been a lover his life is lonely, and he may be likened to a jewelled cup which can contain no wine.

What is hell?...The suffering that comes from the consciousness that one is no longer able to love.

O God, You've done enough, You've robbed me of enough, I'm too tired and old to learn to love, leave me alone for ever.

Love only brought me lonliness and horror.

I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.

There is a lot of love in him, a lot of love in his heart...And he is up there with no one and nothing to love. It is a bad thing to have love and no where to put it.

As weird as it might seem to some people, there is nothing I love more than an empty house and the sound of silence.

I love Taxi Driver. When I saw it the first time, I didn't understand it, but I loved it because I thought the guy was really cool when he's talking to himself in the mirror.

That summer we had been absolutely alone, together, even when people were around, the only inhabitants of the kind of floating island or magic carpet which being in love is.

I do not love; I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking thing to admit.

Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely.

She pulled out her earbuds, leaking music out into the art pavilion.