Quotes About Isolation

Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

The living together for three long, rainy days in the country has done more to dispel love than all the perfidies in love that have ever been committed.

Tis the last rose of summer. Left blooming alone.

The rich know not who is his friend.

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower, that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known that immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language holds its peace in impotence.

My life seems to have become suddenly hollow, and I do not know what is hanging over me. I cannot even put the shadow that has fallen on me into words. At least into written words. I would give a great deal for a friend's voice.

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.

My friend and I have built a wall Between us thick and wide: The stones of it are laid in scorn And plastered high with pride.

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone.

Pillars are fallen at thy feet Fanes quiver in the air A prostrate city is thy seat And thou alone art there.

Nor ear can hear nor tongue can tell The tortures of that inward hell.

It is true that no one can harm the person who wears armor. But no one can help him either.

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.

I take bits and pieces from everything. But I think the Method can be very isolating, and sometimes it's more about ego than playing the character truthfully.

It started in middle school. Once, a group of girls locked me in the janitor's closet. Another time, a girl spilled chocolate milk down a dress I made. Girls would try to trip me in the hallway.

I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people are being thrown away. There is no sense of rehabilitation. In some places, they are trying to do things. But, in most cases, it's a holding cell.

I spent the '90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony.

When I'm online, I'm alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube.

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.

On the Tube, you never see anyone looking you in your eye. They're all looking down at their screen.

In L.A. you can be quite isolated, but in London you can ride the Tube and are right in the thick of humanity and every type of person that you can imagine is passing by.

My arrival at Porto wasn't easy and I had some difficulties. I spoke the same language but I felt very lonely. Two months later I caught tuberculosis yet at the time no doctor at Porto knew for sure what was wrong with me. I trained and played with the B team.