Quotes about Isolation

No one rose to his defense. He not only suffered; he suffered alone. Even his Father turned his back on him in his deepest moment of agony.

Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.

Isolation separates you from opportunity, as people need people, and people hire other people.

The wilderness creates unusual pressures and challenges.

Thomas Merton's Thoughts in Solitude.

Another dynamic at work here is how friends, family, and church members would handle it if they knew what you were thinking. Feeling judged and banished is a common story among those who take a risk to let people in on their well-guarded secret.

Behold, this day You have driven me from the face of the earth, and from Your face I will be hidden; I will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”

So Jacob was left all alone, and there a man wrestled with him until daybreak.

and they took him and threw him into the pit. Now the pit was empty, with no water in it.

No one could see anyone else, and for three days no one left his place. Yet all the Israelites had light in their dwellings.

If he arrived alone, he is to leave alone; if he arrived with a wife, she is to leave with him.

No one may go up with you; in fact, no one may be seen anywhere on the mountain—not even the flocks or herds may graze in front of the mountain.”