Isolation is an unspoken sickness...Don't go solo when…

There has been, for some reason (or more likely an unfortunate accumulation of reasons) a trend over the past several decades for parents to…

— Carolyn Hax

There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Just as humans posses a herding instinct…

— Bill Vaughan

Isolation, not solitude, breaks men. If I could not find the means to deal with the isolation, then my options were severely limited. I…

— Shawn Thompson

Self-absorption intensifies isolation, but permits it to go unnoticed.

— Mason Cooley

Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from their contemporaries.…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. And we must pass through…

— Pablo Neruda

“People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Loneliness is not a result of physical isolation; you're only lonely the day you realize that nobody shares your opinions.”

— Sabah Carrim

Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other people. The…

— Sigmund Freud

Oh, the solitariness of sin! There is nothing like it, except, perhaps, the solitariness of death. In that isolation none can reach you, none…

— Hugh Reginald Haweis

“This was the difference, she thought, between solitude and isolation. And now she knew something about herself she hadn’t known before. It was an…

— James S.A. Corey

“In good company your thoughts run, in solitude your thought is still; it goes deeper and makes for itself a deeper groove, delves. Delve…

— Rumer Godden

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