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Quotes about Isolation

Whatever the reason is, I am happiest when connecting with the human experience. It lets me know that I'm not alone in this world.
— Diane Guerrero
Everybody who has ever been snubbed, you know that is very humiliating.
— Jennifer Aniston
I had been afraid of the primitive, had wanted it broken gently, but here it came on us in a breath, as we stumbled up through the dung and the cramped and stinking huts to our lampless sleeping place among the rats. It was the worst one need fear, and it was bearable because it was inescapable.
— Graham Greene
All, Pyle? Wait until you're afraid of living ten years alone with no companion and a nursing home at the end of it. THen you'll start running in any direction, even away from that girl in the red dressing-gown, to find someone, anyone, who last until you are through.
— Graham Greene
Even Vacancy was crowded with her.
— Graham Greene
The dead were to be envied. It was the living who had to suffer from loneliness and distrust.
— Graham Greene
Terror was always just behind her shoulder: she was wasted by the effort of not turning round. She dressed up her fear, so that she could look at it—in the form of fever, rats, unemployment. The real thing was taboo—death coming nearer every year in the strange place: everybody packing up and leaving, while she stayed in a cemetery no one visited, in a big aboveground tomb.
— Graham Greene
My overcoat is worn out; my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the evening; it is indeed wearisome sitting alone in the dark.
— William Tyndale
If God had intended us to be alone, there would be more pleasure in massaging our own shoulders.
— Robert Brault
And she discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms.
— LM Montgomery
Rachel will be left pretty lonely if anything happens to him, with all her children settled out west, except Eliza in town; and she doesn't like her husband. Marilla's pronouns slandered Eliza, who was very fond of her husband.
— LM Montgomery
It was really dreadful to be so different from other people . . . and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star. Hazel would not have been one of the common herd for anything . . . no matter what she suffered by reason of her differentness.
— LM Montgomery