Quotes About Isolation

Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he'd always identified with poets.

I thought, When a man is properly drunk it is as though he is an a room by himself--there is a physical, impenetrable separation between him and his fellows.

Beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real.

Solitude, the sly enemy that doth separate a man from well-doing.

But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things.

A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves.

And why shouldn't the miraculous, / Caught on this earth, visit / The old man alone in his hut?

Being a sick man is like being a log caught in a stream, Gilles. All the straws gather around it.

What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary?

Wherever you may seek solitude, men will ferret you out and compel you to belong to their desperate company of oddfellows.

A man came up to me the other day and said he hadn't had a bite in weeks. So you know what I did? I walked by him like he didn't even exist.

Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless; then, if the virtuous do not pity you, or God compassionate, you are without a friend in the universe.

There is no man can take, there is no pool can slake, ultimately I am alone; ultimately I am done.

Arguing with a dead man in a lavatory is a claustrophobic experience.

A group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.

The man who stops making new friends eventually will have none.

I could be the Greta Garbo of comedy, very secluded, but Garbo had a man who was beyond rich to support her.

I never mingled with men, but I came home less of a man than I went out.

A man really living alone (alone mentally as well as physically) would have little or no occasion to reflect upon his past experience to extract its net meaning.

Being the richest man on a sinking ship is a bitter victory

There's nothing sadder to me than associations held together by nothing but the glue of postage stamps. If you can't see or hear or touch a man, it's best to let him go.

But a man needs company.

A man who gets few letters does not open one lightly.

A population may be too crowded, though all be amply supplied with food and raiment. It is not good for a man to be kept perforce at all times in the presence of his species.