534 Quotes About Isolation

The biggest lesson that I have learned from the rise of social media is to ignore it.

Vashti was seized with the terrors of direct experience. She shrank back into the room, and the wall closed up again.

Solitude is a chosen separation for not trusting people, for they dispirits you everytime you try to trust them. Whereas Isolation is, when you have too many things to talk about but there's no one for you there.

A hand gets way cleaner from washing, not itself, but the other hand.

...it begins with isolation - demons always inhabit desolate places...

I will leave and isolate myself rather than go through the futile task of trying to make everyone happy, which is impossible anyway.

It's sad that in a world of billions, people can still feel isolated and alone. Sometimes all it takes to brighten up someone's day is a smile or kind word, or the generous actions of a complete stranger. Small things, the tiny details, these are the things that matter in life — the little glint in the eye, curve of a lip, nod of a head, wave of a hand — such minuscule movements have huge ripple effects.

One of the hallmarks of happiness is having close, meaningful connections with others. But keeping up a facade of having it all together keeps us isolated, because it keeps us from forging real, honest, deep relationships where we can fully be ourselves and feel accepted exactly as we are.

Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.