Isolation Loneliness Quotes

Isolation Loneliness Quote of the day

We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.

. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.

But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.

I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.

Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair.

I stood lonely enough, but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed: it did not oppress me much.

I am interested in the loneliness and isolation that we can feel when we hide feelings we are ashamed of, especially if they concern people that we love.

The pain we feel in separation is the price we pay for love.

The myth of self-sufficiency demands optimism without end, downplays life’s challenges, and shames us when, inevitably, we fall short.

One real meeting is much better than a thousand internet or social media words.

The worst kind of loneliness in the world is isolation that comes from being misunderstood. It can make people lose their grasp on reality.

She lives in a world of her own – a world of – little glass ornaments…

We are like puzzle pieces who are perfectly suited to make a giant picture together, but we are assembling ourselves in the dark.

Too many thousands of opened books yawned between them and him. He had exiled himself.

...very lonely and, often, very unhappy, with the poignant misery that comes to lonely people who long to be social and cannot, somehow, step naturally and unselfconsciously into some friendly group

Isolated people, those who live alone, are always conscious of their condition in the homes of families.

See how community is only a good thing when you're a part of it.

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.

I am isolated. I sit in a glass ball, I see people through a glass wall. I scream, but they do not hear me.- Ellen West

An overcrowded world is the ideal place in which to be lonely.

How did men make themselves loved, I wondered. I had passed all my life with men who were loved but I seemed never to have learnt the lesson.

Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while.

You and I share the same DNA.Is there anything more lonely than that?

But most days, I wander around feeling invisible.Like I'm a speck of dustfloating in the airthat can only be seenwhen a shaft of light hits it.

Halls are full of strangers, even when you recognize the faces.

29. Most loneliness results from insulation rather than isolation. In other words, we are lonely because we insulate ourselves, not because others isolate us.

A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone.

I look around at everybody laughing and joking together and struggle to understand my life has become a living hell that nobody present could even begin to imagine