Quotes about Isolation

Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.

When we arrived in Rome, Paul was permitted to stay by himself, with a soldier to guard him.

The fact that Jesus came to earth where he suffered and died does not remove pain from our lives. But it does show that God did not sit idly by and watch us suffer in isolation. He became one of us. Thus, in Jesus, God gives us an up-close and personal look at his response to human suffering. All our questions about God and suffering should, in fact, be filtered through what we know about Jesus.

I dont work with collectives. I don't consult, i don't co-operate, I don't collaborate.

After a few months without writing, months I've lived turned outward... I fear going deaf, not being able to hear the silence.

Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are palpable.

Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they saw each other; and, like the stars in the sky separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing upon each other.

I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.

So they went away in a boat by themselves to a solitary place.

You know that everyone in the Province of Asia has deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.

I aint drinkin after no mule, said the hermit. Have you not got no old bucket nor nothin?

Deep within every man there lies the dread of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the tremendous household of millions and millions.