Quotes about Isolation

Only the desert has a fascination--to ride alone--in the sun in the forever unpossessed country--away from man. That is a great temptation.

For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind-and the boat made three.

More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.

The man who is content to live alone is either a beast or a god.

Unlike concerned parents who may be tempted to isolate their children from the harsh realities of this world, Jesus does not ask that we be removed.

Sometimes you can lock the doors and close the blinds, but the monsters are still there inside your house, sleeping and breathing and just waiting to wake up and terrorize you all over again.

Things like this don't happen back in Libertyville, Illinois. You don't get lost in the woods behind your house. You don't get trapped inside a fortress-like wall ten feet tall.

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 bear the dungeon within me; within me is winter, ice, and despair; I have darkness in my soul.

There is a way of avoiding a person which resembles a search.

By continually going out for reverie, a day comes when you go out to drown yourself.

He had never known a kind woman friend in his native parts. He had not had the time to fall in love.