Quotes about Isolation

Being a divorcee in a small town is a little like playing Monopoly; eventually you land on all the properties.

It would not be hard to imagine that a happy hermit, living in isolation, might feel connected to everything in nature and all people on the planet and not be at all affected by a dearth of human neighbors.

In solitude every fear, every longing, becomes exaggerated.

Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

Be good and you will be lonely.

I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.

Now he watched the two of them, joined together against a troubled world, and he knew the lack in his own life.

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

The isolation of this place tightened like a vise around her throat.

I was also struck by how John wasn't really alone out there because he knew had God with him. My pa was a believer, but we never went near a church or talked much about faith or owned a Bible. That Bible I found was an anchor to hold on to. It reminded me God was with me in the wilderness.~ Trace

Trump—almost never voluntarily alone, and absolutely never alone and awake without the television on—retreated into his bedroom cabin in silence.