Quotes about Isolation
But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary?
- Henry David Thoreau
Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless; then, if the virtuous do not pity you, or God compassionate, you are without a friend in the universe.
- Henry Ward Beecher
There is a need for aloneness... for an actor.
- Marilyn Monroe
A schizophrenic is a person who already has a natural tendency to absent himself from this world.
- Paulo Coelho
The worse I get along with people the more I learn to have faith in Nature and concentrate on her.
- Vincent Van Gogh
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
- William Faulkner
The dark world seemed to lie stricken beneath the cold moon and the lidless stars.
- William Faulkner
Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.
- William Golding
Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you? Close, close, close! I'm the reason why it's no go? Why things are what they are?
- William Golding
Maybe," he said hesitantly, "maybe there is a beast." [...] "What I mean is, maybe it's only us.
- William Golding
I know there isn't no beast—not with claws and all that, I mean—but I know there isn't no fear, either." Piggy paused. "Unless—" Ralph moved restlessly. "Unless what?" "Unless we get frightened of people.
- William Golding