Quotes about Isolation

As the door closed behind them, the painter flung himself down on a sofa, and a look of pain came into his face.

Other people are quite dreadful.  The only possible society is oneself.

How is it possible to be uninterested in other men and by virtue of what cold nonchalance can you detach yourself from the life that they supply so copiously?

Gravity": "It's the story of how George Clooney would rather float away into space and die then spend one more minute with a woman his own age.

Be good and you will be lonely.

The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.

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.

Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.

Because of their enmity you will be left alone. They will cast you out and forsake you.

And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long time they cannot distinguish even bones upon the lonely and inviolate sand.

She is not listening. If she could hear words like that she would not be getting down from this wagon, with that belly and that fan and that little bundle, alone, bound for a place she never saw before and hunting for a man she ain't going to ever see again and that she has already seen one time too many as it is.

He had been too successful, you see; his was that solitude of contempt and distrust which success brings to him who gained it because he was strong instead of merely lucky.