Quotes About Isolation

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

Marriage is like the witness protection programme: you get all new clothes, you live in the suburbs, and you're not allowed to see your friends anymore.

There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.

If you fear loneliness, then don't get married.

Evidently, whatever else marriage might prevent, it was not a remedy for isolation of spirit.

Marriage is lonelier than solitude.

You won't find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.

If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.

I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.

There's life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is on earth, and in the whole universe we are the only men.

The schizoid man is the natural product of the technological man. It is one way to live and is increasingly utilized and it may explode into violence.

If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me.

It's better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction. The man who owns up to arthritis in a beri-beri year is as lonely as a woman in a last month's dress.

For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him.

Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.

It is a fine thing to be out on the hills alone. A man can hardly be a beast or a fool alone on a great mountain.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

The right most valued by all civilized men is the right to be left alone.

I am loved by thousands, but I feel like the loneliest man in the world.

I'm a grumpy old man. The older I get the more anti-social I get.

A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.