Quotes about Isolation

While those who are frightened by the primal energy of dark emotions try to avoid them, becoming more and more cut off from the world at large, those who are willing to wrestle with angels break out of their isolation by dirtying their hands with the emotions that rattle them most.

It is better to be alone than unwelcome. - Eve

I freighted a leaf with a mental message for the friends at home, and dropped it in the stream. But I put no stamp on it and it was held for postage somewhere.

Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the bell. Who could come tonight? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage visitors.

To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.

That I could clamber to the frozen moon. And draw the ladder after me.

Boredom is certainly not an evil to be taken lightly: it will ultimately etch lines of true despair onto a face. It makes beings with as little love for each other as humans nonetheless seek each other with such intensity, and in this way becomes the source of sociability.

It is the monotony of his own nature that makes a man find solitude intolerable.

Despair and isolation are my greatest internal enemies. I need to remember I am not alone, even when it feels that way. Now more than ever it is time to put my solitary ways behind me, even while protecting my solitude.

I had discovered a new world called voluntary aloneness.

I dont work with collectives. I don't consult, i don't co-operate, I don't collaborate.

He never felt lonliness except when he was happy.