Quotes about Isolation

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.

There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.

Charlotte read the preprinted slip. Redeemed. $1,000. She whirled around. "Wait, sir, excuse me, but how did you know . . ." But he was gone. Along with the crowd and the hum of voices. Charlotte stood completely alone except for the battered trunk and the glittering swirl in the air.

but leaving me out was like being kicked out of the family.

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

In May, when sea winds pierced our solitudes,I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods.

Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are palpable.

I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape.

The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off.

I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored

A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies.

Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland.