Quotes About Isolation

Mother spent a lot of her spare time choosing places to be buried in, but they were generally situated in the most remote areas, and one had vision of the funeral cortege dropping exhausted by the wayside long before it had reached the grave.

when law is isolated and exalted into an independent system of religion, it becomes demonic.

the greatest cruelty of madness is the power it has to blot out a person.

You sat in your nice little flat all through our war and watched us, bleeding all over the TV news. And you thought, 'How awful!' and then you got up and made yourself another cup of gourmet coffee." I flinched when he said that. It was a pretty accurate description.

To be adult is to be alone (etre adulte, c'est etre seul).

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

So lonely 'twas that God himself scarce seemed there to be.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

On the outside one is a star. But in reality, one is completely alone, doubting everything. To experience this loneliness of soul is the hardest thing in the world.

I'd like to be a truck driver. I think you could run your life that way. It wouldn't be such a bad way of doing it. It would offer a chance to be alone.

Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.

Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics.

Hiding leads nowhere except to more hiding.

Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with 10,000 people. The hardest is with one.

If we do not rise to the challenge of our unique capacity to shape our lives, to seek the kinds of growth that we find individually fulfilling, then we can have no security: we will live in a world of sham, in which our selves are determined by the will of others, in which we will be constantly buffeted and increasingly isolated by the changes round us.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

Our whole way of life today is dedicated to the removal of risk. Cradle to grave we are supported, insulated, and isolated from the risks of life- and if we fall, our government stands ready with Band-Aids of every size.

Security is a kind of death.

My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling.