Quotes About Isolation

The impact of solitary confinement can have a devastating consequence to the psychology of the people who are affected.

I didn't mind the 23 hours a day solitary confinement for the majority of the time, because after the first few years in prison, when I stopped being angry and started to like myself and understand myself, it was OK. I still enjoy my own company sometimes.

I have recurring nightmares about being in a Nazi concentration camp with all my family and constantly being sent to solitary confinement.

They put me in solitary confinement, and although I went on to do 8,755 days of solitary in total, the first two were the hardest. I almost went mad, beating my head against the wall.

How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the thinking faculties have lain dormant!

Shortly after arriving at a makeshift military jail at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, in May 2010, I was placed into the black hole of solitary confinement for the first time.

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

Solitude is not the same as loneliness. Solitude is a solitary boat floating in a sea of possible companions.

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.

Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.

Solitude begets whimsies.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.

When you have a lot of solitude, any living thing becomes a companion.

This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.

Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost.

How different a creature is man in society and man in solitude!

People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.

Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me.