Quotes about Isolation

I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table—the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.

At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others—poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner—young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life. Again

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.

The denial of emotion is a terrible thing; what takes time is learning that the positive path is the education of emotion, not it's uncritical indulgence, which actually locks us far more firmly in our mutual isolation. Likewise, the denial of rights is a terrible thing; and what takes time to learn is that the opposite of oppression is not a wilderness of litigation and reparation but the nurture of concrete, shared respect.

My soul is like the dead sea, over which no bird can fly; when it gets halfway, it sinks down spent to its death and destruction.

Deep within every man there lies the dread of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the tremendous household of millions and millions.

My life is utterly meaningless

The greatest hazard of all, losing one's self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.

man who lives under his own supervision, alone in the whole world

This is a fact: Strength in the pursuit of peace is no vice; isolation in the pursuit of security is no virtue.

It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.

Failure has no friends.