Quotes about Isolation
Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.
— Carl Jung
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
— Mother Teresa
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
— Soren Kierkegaard
The virtuous soul that is alone and without a master is like a long lone burning coal; it will grow colder rather than hotter.
— John of the Cross
If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up.
— Dr. Seuss
Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The bigger the crowd, the more negligible the individual.
— Carl Jung
All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!
— Dr. Seuss
Like Abraham you will believe, like Sarah you will conceive, and like Moses you will rise from your isolation and exile. You will live again. God is determined to reverse your tragedy into transformation and crown your tomb with the testimony of a glorious resurrection.
— Dutch Sheets
But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart.
— Edith Wharton
They stood together in the gloom of the spruces, an empty world glimmering about them wide and gray under the stars.
— Edith Wharton
Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.
— Edith Wharton