Quotes about Isolation
You have laid me in the lowest Pit, in the darkest of the depths.
- Psalm 88:6
You have removed my friends from me; You have made me repulsive to them; I am confined and cannot escape.
- Psalm 88:8
All day long they engulf me like water; they enclose me on every side.
- Psalm 88:17
All who pass by plunder him; he has become a reproach to his neighbors.
- Psalm 89:41
I am like a desert owl, like an owl among the ruins.
- Psalm 102:6
I lie awake; I am like a lone bird on a housetop.
- Psalm 102:7
Look to my right and see; no one attends to me. There is no refuge for me; no one cares for my soul.
- Psalm 142:4
The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares in its joy.
- Proverbs 14:10
He who isolates himself pursues selfish desires; he rebels against all sound judgment.
- Proverbs 18:1
All the brothers of a poor man hate him—how much more do his friends avoid him! He may pursue them with pleading, but they are nowhere to be found.
- Proverbs 19:7
There is a man all alone, without even a son or brother. And though there is no end to his labor, his eyes are still not content with his wealth: “For whom do I toil and bereave my soul of enjoyment?” This too is futile—a miserable task.
- Ecclesiastes 4:8
Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field until no place is left and you live alone in the land.
- Isaiah 5:8