Quotes About Isolation

The more men believe an idea to be true the greater the likelihood that the idea is mistaken. Those who are right usually stand alone.

A writer is a maker, not a man of action: his private life is of no concern to anybody but himself, his family and his friends.

Nothing is more sterile or lamentable than the man content to live within himself.

There is nothing worse than a man in the throws of an ether bender.

The most favorable moment to seize a man and influence him is when he is alone in the mass. It is at this point that propaganda can be most effective.

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.

I don't doubt that a man can live perfectly well on his own, but I'm convinced that he begins to die as soon as he closes the door of his house behind him.

The secret of solitude is that there is no solitude.

He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign.

No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.

Silence is the tortured man's revenge.

Alone-- it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end.

The things men come to eat when they are alone are, I suppose, not much stranger than the men themselves.... A writer years ago told me of living for five months on hen mash.

What a man misses mostly in heaven is company.

Hey man! Get away from me!

What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude?

A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it.

There is no solitude more dreadful for a stranger, an isolated man, than a great city; so many thousands of men and not one friend.

Show me the man who would go to heaven alone if he could, and in that man I will show you one who will never be admitted into heaven.

Only man has become an outsider - and because of his own efforts. On his own, he has separated himself from existence.

Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.

In tennis you're on an island. Of all the games men and women play, tennis is the closest to solitary confinement.

I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were felt by the whole human race, there would not be one cheerful face left on earth.

I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored