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Quotes About Isolation

In a sea of human beings, it is difficult, at times even impossible, to see the human as being.
~ Aysha Taryam
Through the dense din, I say, we heard him shout"I see your lights!" But ours had long died out.
~ Wilfred Owen, Poems
What are we doing, burying bodies?" Admittedly, this would be a lace to do it. Isolated, off any main roads."Nope. We're going to war.
~ Kelley York, Made of Stars
...Chief without soldiers is just a very lonely man in a big bloody field
~ Joe Abercrombie, The Heroes
The more men I kill, the more far away from home I feel -- Saving Private Ryan
~ Tom Hanks
In past wars only homes burnt, but this timeDon't be surprised if even loneliness ignites.In past wars only bodys burnt, but this timeDon't be surprised if even shadows ignite.
~ Sahir Ludhianvi
Humans without humanity, A world of dread and fear for eternity.
~ Mouloud Benzadi
I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools.
~ Claude McKay
Seclusion is the price of greatness.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
In solitude, where we are least alone.
~ Lord Byron
Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Damned
The greater the spirit, the more one is alone.
~ Suzy Kassem
As far as I'm concerned the only thing to do is sit in a room and get drunk
~ Jack Kerouac
Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a person deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost
~ Thomas Merton
The world is a navy in an empty ocean.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
Wisdom is sold in a desolate marketplace where none can come to buy.
~ William Blake
The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer.
~ Eugene Delacroix
I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.
~ Lois Lowry, The Giver
Solitude is an ocean with wonderful places hidden in its depths.
~ Isaac of Nineveh
Not too isolated, not too many relationships, the middle, that's wisdom.
~ Confucius
And this that you call solitude is in fact a big crowd.
~ Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape
Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.
~ Charles Dickens
How mysteriously alone we are! How tempting to imagine that if we're loved, our loneliness will be dispelled.
~ Sy Safransky
Guillermo was lonely and serviceable and always rushed in to do the things one wanted in a way one did not want them done.
~ Sybille Bedford