Isolation Quotes

One by one they are being picked off around him: in his small circle of colleagues the ratio slowly ...

Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

What was it - this implacable remoteness, this inability to surrender herself to the warmth and comr...

Up here on the Ice each of us is singular, isolate, I as cut off from those like me, from my society...

alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an is...

. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.

From his earliest years Cincinnatus, by some strange and happy chance comprehending his danger, care...

His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time h...

[The modern age] knows nothing about isolation and nothing about silence. In our quietest and loneli...

Biographer diagnoses reaction to restriction as a tell of true character. Some use even prison as a ...

He laid there realizing how thoroughly he'd removed himself from the world or obligations, how stupi...

Loneliness makes us more capable of true intimacy if ever better opportunities do come along. We mig...

I have such a fear of finding another like myself, and such a desire to find one! I am so utterly lo...

Am I creating my own isolation? It seems to me that most of my acts are acts of integrity. So much t...

Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I ...

A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murd...

This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright...

Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair.

At the exact time that our society embraces shaming, blaming, judgment, and rejection, it also holds...

People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles. This is the first thing I hear when I come ba...

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be consid...

If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfrie...

He had been for many years, a quiet silent man, associating but little with other men, and used to c...

As the new work fills my notebooks, I've come to realize that the characters in my stories were so r...

I stood lonely enough, but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed: it did not oppress me much...

The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is oft...

The final fact being that at the very bottom of his soul he was an outsider, and anti-social, and he...

So he was always in the town at one place or another, drinking, knocking about with the men he knew....

Energetically speaking, antimatter is the mirror image of matter, so the two instantly cancel each o...

Even the technology that promises to unite us, divides us. Each of us is now electronically connecte...

I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolat...

The parts of me that used to think I was different or smarter or whatever, almost made me die.

Vashti was seized with the terrors of direct experience. She shrank back into the room, and the wall...

Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to...

My uncle would have about ten pints some nights and then drive us all home. I guess the feeling was ...

Isolation is a way to know ourselves.

I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that...

Isolation is the one sure way to human happiness.

It was a different sense of isolation from what he normally felt in Japan. And not such a bad feelin...

What we needed were not words and promises but the steady accumulation of small realities.

Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, ...

And then, for an hour, he became aware of the strange life he was leading, of him doing lots of thin...

Just slowly, among his growing riches, Siddhartha had assumed something of the childlike people's wa...

Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetti...

Today, one must either be isolated and cut off, or a carefully guarded, affluent drop-out, to allow ...

It seemed to me that all things were possible on the island, all tyrannies and cruelties, though in ...

Too many thousands of opened books yawned between them and him. He had exiled himself.

There were not words enough in the English language, nor in any language, to make his attitude and c...

Our time was most delightfully spent, in mutual Protestations of Freindship, and in vows of unaltera...

In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. Tha...

The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into t...

If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s becaus...

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If...

No man is an island, entire of itself.

When I was going on one day in the car about not having any close friends - using my favourite metap...

We have to live without sympathy, don't we? That's impossible of course. We act it to one another, a...

The monks' response was to climb into their curraghs and row off toward Greenland. They were drawn a...

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectu...

And here it becomes evident that the bourgeoisie is unfit any longer to be the ruling class in socie...

Sometimes isolation can be shared.

And in this curious state I had the realization, at the moment of seeing that stranger there, that I...

I don't care what you think unless it is about me.

He liked the electric darkness and the hot dirty air and the blasts of noise and traffic and the man...

Much of the study of history is a matter of comparison, of relating what was happening in one area t...

A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language ...

My aunt must have been perfectly well aware that she would not see Swann again, that she would never...

No wires tender even as nervescan transmit the impact ofour seasons, our catastropheswhile we are cl...

Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget...

And it is because we all of us know of this sombre power and its perilous manifestations, that we st...

No man, proclaimed Donne, is an Island, and he was wrong. If we were not islands, we would be lost, ...

Without hesitation, Dove chose the nowhere road. For that was the only place, in his heart of hearts...

We are only human when we are part of a community. ... I tried to isolate you, but it could not be d...

He had so much damn respect he wanted to scream.

Graff had isolated Ender to make him struggle. To make him prove, not that he was competent, but tha...

Having arrived at this point, he had found no direction in which to go save that of further withdraw...

Loneliness clarifies. Here silence standsLike heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken, Hidden weeds flow...

I was always alone, Doc, solitary whether I wished to be or not, ever since I could remember I wishe...

I fall in love with Paraíso. It’s like a giant playground where I’m never scolded for running around...

Friendship is not a remedy for loneliness. Loneliness is part of our experience, and if we are looki...

There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution kn...

We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.

It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the ro...

All men lead their lives behind a wall of misunderstanding they have themselves built and most men d...

...very lonely and, often, very unhappy, with the poignant misery that comes to lonely people who lo...

...very lonely and, often, very unhappy, with the poignant misery that comes to lonely people who lo...

...very lonely and, often, very unhappy, with the poignant misery that comes to lonely people who lo...

...very lonely and, often, very unhappy, with the poignant misery that comes to lonely people who lo...

I am going to the USA to catch sight of a wild porcupine and to give some lectures.

It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame ...

In hermetic isolation, all kinds of bizarre and toxic ideas can fester. Sunlight is the best disinfe...

Not Waving but Drowning Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further...

Haymitch isn't thinking of arenas, but something else. "Johanna's back in the hospital."I assumed Jo...

I think that [William] Faulkner and I each had to escape certain particulars of our lives, and we fo...

She lives in a world of her own – a world of – little glass ornaments…