Quotes about Isolation
Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.
— Anonymous
I think our elderly are forgotten sometimes.
— Ricky Gervais
Other birds fly in groups, only eagles fly alone.
— Francine Rivers
Everyone to whom she drew close left her. Sooner or later they walked away.
— Francine Rivers
I have an idea. Why don't we build a house honoring the Lord and go inside and close the doors and never come out again." Though she jested, he saw the desperate unhappiness in her eyes. "What light can shine from a closed house, beloved? God wants us in the world, not hiding from it.
— Francine Rivers
Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.
— Frank Herbert
It should be one of the tests," the old woman said. "Humans are almost always lonely.
— Frank Herbert
Humans are always most lonely.
— Frank Herbert
Humans are always most lonely.
— Frank Herbert
Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually, they lose touch with reality . . . and fall.
— Frank Herbert
The noise obviously wasn't penetrating to his quarters.
— Frank Herbert
If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
— Samuel Beckett