Quotes About Isolation

Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and the only one who is searching for the Other.

When is man strong until he feels alone?

The thoughtful man becomes a hermit in the thoroughfares of the marketplace.

The loneliness of the man is slowly being borne in upon me. There is not a man aboard but hates or fears him, nor is there a man whom he does not despise.

It's hard to stay calm when you're terrified, helpless, alone, at the mercy of men with no mercy at all.

Me in a one-man tent crouching over carrier bag. It's not just the lowest point of the trip. It's the lowest point ever. In 38 years.

Personality is a person among persons. There is no personality of one man on a desert island.

The battlefield is cold... it is the lonesomest place which men share together.

The General Public is a statistical fiction created by a few exceptional men to make the loneliness of being exceptional a little easier to bear.

I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.

Men put me on a pedestal, then never come to visit.

Once I leave, I leave. I am not going to speak to the man on the bridge, and I am not going to spit on the deck.

Late last night and the night before, tommyknockers, tommyknockers knocking on my door. I wanna go out, don't know if I can 'cuz I'm so afraid of the tommyknocker man.

As I go about I see a lot of "coffin" men. They have room for themselves and nobody else.

We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.

I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man -- public opinion.

I don't have a lot to share with other men. My heart sinks when I get into a taxi and someone starts talking to me about football.

The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.

Once a week, I am a very desperate man.

All men are islands, surrounded by the bottomless oceans of unthinking night.

There are men and women so lonely they believe God, too, is lonely.

Like all mad men, I thought everyone was mad except myself.

A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer - in the form of a review or something.

A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted.