Quotes about Isolation

There're a lot of things you don't understand. Zachary smoldered his gaze at me. I came looking for you, and then when I found out where you were, suddenly it didn't seem worth it. It wasn't you. It was everything and nothing. Life. Ma's death. Talking to anybody. Not worth it

I do hope I wasn't born in some dreadful mitochondrion which lives in some horrible isolated human host on a lonely planet like yours.

I felt so insufferably alone. I remembered Miss Myra Turnbull telling us once that this desperate need we have to belong to someone goes back to our earliest forebears, the lowest form of animal life, the amoeba, each individual particle of which has to be joined to other particles to make a whole. Then

dis-aster is separation from the stars. Such separation is disaster indeed. When we are separated from the stars, the sea, each other, we are in danger of being separated from God.

The haunted house was half in the shadows of the clump of elms in which it stood.

It is never crowded at the mountaintop.

The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don't. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy.

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone but sometimes it is a great relief.

To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.

Don't depend on anyone too much. Even your shadow leaves when it's dark.

There are worse places to be than on your own.

Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help.