The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive…

For every finish-line tape a runner breaks -- complete with the cheers of the crowd and the clicking of hundreds of cameras -- there…

— Grete Waitz

“Changing any organization for the benefit of the customer is difficult and often lonely work.”

— Mark Hurst

Of course I'd like someone in my life. And of course, when I go home in the evening, I wish there was someone waiting…

— Prabhu Deva

It's kind of a lonely work, because you just have to keep your pole in the water. I always had a little routine of…

— Tom Petty

writing, like living, is lonely work.

— Blanche Willis Howard

People knew less of each other, and so were more individual. The entire world was not for them only a push or switch away.…

— John Fowles

People knew less of each other, perhaps, but they felt more free of each other, and so were more individual. The entire world was…

— John Fowles

“Two people who live their lives alone in rooms doing strange, gentle things can sometimes be together in the middle of a dangerous storm…

— Samantha Hunt

Something in our nature cries out to be loved by another. Isolation is devastating to the human psyche. That is why solitary confinement is…

— Gary Chapman

I am very convinced that I did not contract Ebola in the isolation unit, because our process is so safe.

— Kent Brantly

Isolation makes me lonesome, but when I'm lonely in a crowd, I feel desolate and forlorn.

— Steve Fowler

For years mental health professionals taught people that they could be psychologically healthy without social support, that “unless you love yourself, no one else…

— Bruce D. Perry

To really be of benefit to others as the Buddha always taught, we ourselves must first get out of the swamp. One of the…

— Tenzin Palmo

Generally, I like all islands. There, it is easier to rule.

— Albert Camus

It is the incongruous thing in my entire life, this isolation.. ... My work requires it - but I myself have no need or…

— Marsden Hartley