Quotes about Isolation

I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye.

I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.

Quite simply, our isolation from nature has become isolation from God's Word. Cocooned in our manmade world of climate-controlled homes, cars, subways, and high-rises, we're finding it easier to live as practical atheists.

Too many of us are lonely ministers practicing a lonely ministry.

Solitude is the practice of being absent from people and things to attend to God.

Let the person who cannot be alone beware of community. Let the person who is not in community beware of being alone."17

We hadn't heard anything about registering to vote because when you see this flat land in here, when the people would get out of the fields, if they had a radio, they'd be too tired to play it. So we didn't know what was going on in the rest of the state, even, much less in other places.

Willed introversion, in fact, is one of the classic implements of creative genius and can be employed as a deliberate device.

Die Gesellschaft stellt eifersüchtig denen nach, die sich von ihr ausschließen, und wird kommen und an die Pforte pochen.

What is it to be rich toward God? To understand this, imagine for a moment everything you call yours in the world as taken from you. Picture yourself abandoned and forgotten of all, in utter isolation alone with your own heart. And then ask yourself: What have I now? What do I now possess?

Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet.

I made this film 'The Beach,' which didn't take place in a city, and it didn't really suit me.