534 Quotes About Isolation

A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.

...She looked at the people around her and felt not just that she was surrounded by strangers, but that she herself was strange, somehow, that something kept her from ever fully bridging the gap between who she was and who all these other people, making their way through the very same day, were.

Sometimes i think if nobody spoke to me, i'd never speak again.

Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists.

Urge to come to terms with the "Outside," by absorbing, interiorizing it. I won't come out, you must come in to me. Into my womb-garden where I peer out. Where I can construct a universe within the skull, to rival the real.

I am a stranger in this world, and there is a severe solitude and painful lonesomeness in my exile.

Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone?

The trick is not to be isolated―if you're isolated, like Winston Smith in 1984, then sooner or later you're going to break, as he finally broke. That was the point of Orwell's story. In fact, the whole tradition of popular control has been exactly that: to keep people isolated, because if you can keep them isolated enough, you can get them to believe anything. But when people get together, all sorts of things are possible.

He will not go behind his father's saying, And he likes having thought of it so well He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors.