534 Quotes About Isolation

Silence is nice to have if you wanted it, but maddening if you didn't.

ZA NESHVAĆENETražim pomilovanjeza neshvaćenekoji ne umeju da premosteni kapilarskih razdaljinado majke i sina,do svakodnevne stvari proste;za one koji ostaju stranirukama što ih drže u naručju,suncu pred kojim se sve razdani,sobnoj, kao košulja bliskoj, tami.Za sopstvene duše tamničare,za radosti svojih trovače,za one što viču kad im se plače,kad u nežnosti greznu,što uhode sebe kao tuđina,za puškarnice srca njina,za svačiju dušu zatvorenui opreznu.

What if you could start allowing your sensuality to permeate every aspect of whatever you're doing on a daily basis instead of compartmentalizing and isolating it from a majority of your daily affairs like it's some kind of an infectious disease?

There is a common language, a mode of consciousness, almost a secret sign which can be read and recognized by all who are similarly engaged. Such realizations help fend off the feeling of isolation which can dog the steps of those who seek the Grail.

After all, the only thing that hurts more than tears shed is tears unshed.

Bad habits are demons that often push us into isolation because they know that in our loneliness they stand little chance of being overcome.

Being a control freak is a weakness, not a strength. If you can't allow others to shine, you're exhibiting signs of narcissism and showing a lack of self-confidence. It is isolation through ego.

Incapable of communicating himself to others, incapable of breaking out of his isolation, doomed to remain the mere actor of his life, the deputy of his own ego—all that any human being can know of another is a mere symbol, a symbol of an ego that remains beyond our grasp, possessing no more value than that of a symbol; and all that can be told is the symbol of a symbol, a symbol at a second, third, nth remove, asking for representation in the true double sense of the word.

Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?