Quotes About Isolation

People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus.

Misery is a communicable disease.

We're all in this together ... alone.

Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all of life's greatest tests alone.

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers.

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

In solitude, when we are least alone.

Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide, wide sea.

I praise the Frenchman; his remark was shrewd, - "How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude." But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper - Solitude is sweet.

The strongest man is the one who stands most alone.

He rose without a friend, and sat down without an enemy.

The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?

I have trodden the winepress alone.

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.

City life - millions of people being lonesome together.

A great city, a great solitude.

As a remedy to life in society, I would suggest the big city. Nowadays it is the only desert within our reach.

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

The voice of one crying in the wilderness.

It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

Oh, the long and dreary Winter! Oh, the cold and cruel Winter!

Letter-writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.

Good-bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou are not my friend; I am not thine.