Isolation Quotes

423 quotes by 362 authors

Don't say anything, because I see that you understand me, and I am afraid of your understanding. I have such a fear of finding another… — Anais Nin
Instead of answering her as soon as he saw her hair grow electric, her face more vivid, her eyes like lightning, her body restless and… — Anais Nin
With a nearly desperate sense of isolation and a growing suspicion that I lived in an alien land, I took to the road in search… — William Least Heat-Moon
She felt a stealing sense of fatigue as she walked; the sparkle had died out of her, and the taste of life was stale on… — Edith Wharton
The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison. — Nadine Gordimer
I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It's very strange how often strong feelings don't seem to carry… — Philip Larkin
Tenderness emerges from the fact that the two persons, longing, as all individuals do, to overcome the separateness and isolation to which we are all… — Rollo May
Maybe that's what growing up means, in the end - you go far enough in the direction of - somewhere - and you realise that… — Gregory Maguire
Something in our nature cries out to be loved by another. Isolation is devastating to the human psyche. That is why solitary confinement is considered… — Gary Chapman
There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. And we must pass through solitude… — Pablo Neruda
No factions? A world in which no one knows who they are or where they fit? I can't even fathom it. I imagine only chaos… — Veronica Roth
You experience life alone, you can be as intimate with another as much as you like, but there has to be always a part of… — Steve Toltz
Jesus went without comfort so that you might have it. He postponed joy so that you might share in it. He willingly chose isolation so… — Joni Eareckson Tada
I have become convinced that the more wealth a country accumulates, the more isolated and lonely its people become. The loneliest are usually the children… — Wess Stafford
The problem is not that religious people are stupid. It's not that religious fundamentalists are stupid. I happen to think that you can be so… — Sam Harris
I stood lonely enough, but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed: it did not oppress me much. — Charlotte Bronte
Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people,… — Madeleine L'Engle
The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get… — Steven Johnson
But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness. — Megan Whalen Turner
Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction… — Paul Bowles

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