Quotes about Isolation

So when we could bear it no longer, we were willing to be left on our own in Athens.

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

At my first defense, no one stood with me, but everyone deserted me. May it not be charged against them.

The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and hid in caves and holes in the ground.

there is nothing worse than the feeling that no one cares whether we exist or not, that no one is interested in what we have to say about life, and that the world can continue turning without our awkward presence. I began to imagine how many millions of people were, at that moment, feeling utterly useless and wretched—however rich, charming, and delightful they might be—because they were alone that night, as they were yesterday, and as they might well be tomorrow.

The boy knew that in money there was magic; whoever has money is never really alone.

I can only conclude that worse than hunger or thirst, worse than being unemployed, unhappy in love or defeated and in despair, far worse than any of all those things, is feeling that no one, absolutely no one, cares about us.

My friends, there are no friends.

No voice, no low, no howl is heard; the chief sound of life here is a hiss.

We're all in this together alone.

I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.

In winter there is no heat, no light, no noon, evening touches morning, there is fog, and mist, the window is frosted, and you cannot see clearly. The sky is but the mouth of a cave. The whole day is the cave.... Frightful season! Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.