Quotes about Isolation

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

I think it quite likely that we are the only civilization within several hundred light years; otherwise we would have heard radio waves.

Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

There is something very poignant about plastic bags. These lonely plastic bags that gradually disintegrate.

A writer's tragedy: to know all the words and nothing else.

Everybody's friend is nobody's.

And I was taught to feel, perhaps too much, The self-sufficing power of solitude.

Therefore, let the moon shine on thee in thy solitary walk; And let the misty-mountain winds be free to blow against thee.

Society has parted man from man, neglectful of the universal heart.

Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.