Quotes about Isolation

In that bower, closed off from the hurt of the hurt world, Denver's imagination produced its own hunger and its own food, which she badly needed because loneliness wore her out. Wore her out. Veiled and protected by the live green walls, she felt ripe and clear, and salvation was as easy as a wish.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.

We're all in this together ... alone.

Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.

There is nothing good to be had in the country, or, if there be, they will not let you have it.

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

How many people are there left who are neither locked up nor standing guard at the gate?

There is no home left for universal souls, except perhaps in Antarctica or on the high seas.

You will believe me when I say the life we lead grows less and less distinct from the life we led of Cruso's island. Sometimes I wake up not knowing where I am. The world is full of islands, said Cruso once. His words ring truer every day.

The reason is that as far as I am concerned, what happened to me is a purely private matter. In another time, in another place it might be held to be a public matter. But in this place, in this time, it is not. It is my bussines, mine alone. 'This place being what?' 'This place being South Africa

As far as I'm concerned the only thing to do is sit in a room and get drunk