534 Quotes About Isolation

I prefer what Louis-Ferdinand Céline says: when you've reached the very end of all things, and sorrow itself no longer offers an answer, then you must return to the company of others, no matter who they are.

I stood where they'd left me. I watched them get smaller and smaller as they went down the hallway, leaving me there without a word, not even looking back. Only I was getting smaller and smaller, being swallowed up in the suffocating emptiness of the silent house; so that by the time they came back again, I would have disappeared.

He lived a quiet existence where the future was easy to predict and the past was a cancer in remission. It was meaningful, of course. But it was lonely.

She stood awkwardly for another endless moment -- a total and obvious outsider, even though this was her house where she lived. It felt like she didn't belong anywhere. It felt like she probably never would.

Every time I exit my lair and venture out among the multitudes, I’m always bringing my isolation with me.

[Hannah] Arendt wrote about the subjugation of public space - in effect the disappearance of public space, which, by depriving a person of boundaries and agency, rendered him profoundly lonely.

Dear Hewitt Costello, Equerry, were daylighted with our outing and are looking backwards to our unearly summers

A stark sense of isolation encloses anyone who looks outward for validation.

This place… It feels sort of like a box garden, cut off from the rest of the world.