Quotes About Isolation

Unfortunately, the world has taken some of the greatest minds God has given us and locked them up in cages. Most very brilliant or creative people seem strange to ordinary people. Geniuses are almost always outcasts. The intelligent are bullied on the playground. They see the world differently and are shunned for it. They nearly all turn out to be lonely at the least, locked up at the worst. It's human nature to encourage the status quo and shun those who see life differently.

I was lost, starving for intimacy, desperate to be valued, swallowed by a sea of lonely hearts, thinking that perhaps I was the only one who was lost.

I've always wanted to go to the desert. It's so vast. Uncaring of the rest of the world. It's just there, no matter what else happens. Golden sands and towering rocks. Coyotes that roam the land, free.

For starters, you're the only one who can hear or see me. Like I said, you're my only concern. I won't reveal myself to anyone else.

There was no life above the surface anyway.

Everyone is a lonely victim of life's complexity.

He was his own leftover, the spat-out scrag. He was what his brain could make nothing of.

Following a faint stain- On the air to the river's edge These weeds know me and name me to each other Have they seen me before? Do I fit in their world? I seem separate from the ground And not rooted, but dropped out of nothing casually- I've no threads fastening me to anything I can go anywhere I seem to have been given the freedom of this place- What am I then?

Flowerlike, I loved nothing. from Mayday on Holderness

I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)

She lives in a world of her own – a world of – little glass ornaments…

Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the one that you love doesn't love you.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

He knew well the singularly strange sensation of loving one's family to distraction, and yet not feeling quite able to share one's deepest and most intractable fears. It brought on an uncanny sense of isolation, of being remarkably alone in a loud and loving crowd. -Anthony's thoughts

People never talked to me," she snapped. "Half the time they didn't even know I was there. How do you think I was able to keep up the ruse for so long in the first place? I was invisible, Colin. No one saw me, no one talked to me. I just stood and listened, and no one noticed.

And she was alone. Alone in the middle of crowded London, in the middle of a large and loving family. It was hard to imagine a lonelier spot.

If one didn't have love, was it better, then, to be alone?

As we paint each other's nails Cinnamon Vixen, I consider telling her how bad things are at home. After she and Dan and Laura left for college, everything got worse. Mother's mood swings, Dad's violence, the name-calling at school.

Through the snowy silver maple trees, he could see the gray stone stronghold of St. Alban's. She was in there, behind one of the diamond-paned windows, a block away and as far out of reach as the moon. On his CD player, Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks was crooning, Without you, I'm not okay, and without you, I've lost my way… If he lived through this mess, he was never listening to country music again.

No one knows how dark the night is until you can't speak into it.

In prison we become the prisoners even of our dreams.

There is something wrong when I go to the theatre whose province is the world and instead of being brought closer to the world I am cut off from it.

the natures of solitary people are apt to have more unmapped country in them than worldly folk imagine. They see and think and do things peculiar to themselves, and one may turn up buried treasure in them at any moment. ("Absolute Evil")

But there it is: Everyone is alone, for life, and maybe that's not such a bad thing.