534 Quotes About Isolation

....Lived in curious but not unhappy isolation…subscribing to magazines nobody around them read, listening to programs on the national radio network which nobody around them listened to…

He can have friends. It's parents he can't have.

An eternity gone by ,in this solitude,A confinement within my mind , to endure through life.Isolation , they say, is a gift that only the strongest possesses. Breaking the norms of conformity .Insane, am I? For , to be accepted , I need to be part of " them ".I am an anarchy and the anarchist ,I am, my ,own " God".

How often did he feel it now, this gorgeous, furtive seclusion? In the bath sometimes, maybe. Though Jean failed to understand his need for periodic isolation and regularly dragged him back to earth mid-soak by hammering on the locked door in search of bleach or dental floss.

Isolation has carved me in its image and likeness.

I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.

Love can bring people out of isolation, get them to take off the Halloween masks they wear, breathing through the slits.

However useful it was to me in my present situation, there was something terrifying in the realisation that I was known to nobody, that no one could have the slightest idea who I was, or what a singular quirk of fate had brought me here, or what secrets I was concealing. I felt like a departed spirit walking on earth in which all the affection he had once enjoyed had long since perished.

They knew that Pascal’s room, Thoreau’s hut, and especially their own den was a dark chamber, an unhealthy space full of resentment; they knew that one is nothing when alone, that one thinks most often of nothing at all, and that hell is not other people, but the self.