Isolation Quotes
You can be the most productive person in your area of your calling if you can just isolate yourself and learn to convert your time into products.
In a world as noisy as ours, only those who can isolate themselves will be able to think better and meditate better and hence have a higher chance of receiving innovative ideas and concepts.
No matter how far I try to travel from people, people always appear. Either they follow me, or they're already there, and I followed them, unwittingly.
I wasn't sure if it was safe for me to be sharing time and space with other people, who all seemed so much gentler and safer and less of a secret to themselves than I felt I was.
Find a part of yourself hidden in the twilight.
Bad habits are demons that often push us into isolation because they know that in our loneliness they stand little chance of being overcome.
Separation from the community creates isolation. Isolation is the source of most physical, emotional and spiritual disease.
Some artists benefit less from being interviewed than they do from being left alone.
There is this common notion that people are shallow and ignorant until they go out and see the world. I, on the other hand, went out and in comparison realized I was in pretty good standing.
When they speak of Hell there's something they miss there's a worse place to be and it's called the Abyss.
Chronic illness is hard. Pain is hard. Isolation is hard. The financial cost is hard. Grieving is hard and necessary and sometimes takes far longer than we every imagined.
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
To truly strip a man of everything, one must take away his community, money, and corrode the core of his beliefs until he is left bathed in the agony of isolation.
To truly strip a man of everything, one must take away his money, community, and the core of his beliefs until he is bathed in the agony of isolation.
I have been sadder than any man could be: for nothing in the world was made for me.
Doing the things you hate is living in a world of sin. Hell is staying in the place Jesus saved you from. That is, to live on your own, without God.
If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.
What we needed were not words and promises but the steady accumulation of small realities.
A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone.
I tell myself I’m fine on my own, but am I? No friends to fall back on, no relationships, no support. Left to my own devices, I have no devices.
29. Most loneliness results from insulation rather than isolation. In other words, we are lonely because we insulate ourselves, not because others isolate us.
Before I spoke with people, I did not think of all these things because there was no one to bother to think them for. Now things just come out of my mouth which are true.
In the deepest darkness God tenderly grasps my hand and whispers that darkness is nothing more than a place that He is preparing for the arrival of light.
...you are my Lady of Shalott lost in a dream of isolation - I care too much for you - I romanticize depression...
It is my opinion that the isolated mind loses its purchase on reality all too easily and becomes prone to fantasy.
There should be a little gap between you and your friends, though you'll miss their companionship and you'll also miss their disrespect.
Wherever you go in the next catastrophéBe it sickroom, or prison, or cemet’ryDo not fear that your stay will besolit’ryCountless souls share your fate, you’ll have company!
When you are isolated and obscured, your achievements may be wonderful but unknown.
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.
You and I share the same DNA.Is there anything more lonely than that?
Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while.
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.
An overcrowded world is the ideal place in which to be lonely.
...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
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
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.
Isolated people, those who live alone, are always conscious of their condition in the homes of families.
There were not words enough in the English language, nor in any language, to make his attitude and conduct intelligible to them.
We are like puzzle pieces who are perfectly suited to make a giant picture together, but we are assembling ourselves in the dark.
She lives in a world of her own – a world of – little glass ornaments…
The worst kind of loneliness in the world is isolation that comes from being misunderstood. It can make people lose their grasp on reality.
The consequences of seeking popularity is not only the chronic feeling of lonliness, but a desire to hide your face from the eyes of the universe.