Correspondence Quote by H. P. Lovecraft

Composing demands a degree of isolation.

— Cliff Martinez

Isolation is a way to know ourselves.

— Franz Kafka

Isolation and belonging are not absolute, provable states of being. They arise completely out of the nothingness within you; you measure their dimensions against…

— Paula Sharp

The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is a common language, a mode of consciousness, almost a secret sign which can be read and recognized by all who are similarly…

— John Matthews

“The psyche of some people, whether through innate structure or via adaption to personal experiences, is uniquely adept for absolute aloneness.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Being isolated at times doesn't always mean that you want to distance yourself from others; it simply means that you need some space to…

— Wazim Shaw

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in…

— William James

We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. [...] By its…

— Aldous Huxley

You can have a team of unconventional thinkers, as well as conventional thinkers. If you don't have the support of others you cannot achieve…

— Jonas Salk

A thinking that approaches it objects openly, rigorously ... is also free toward its objects in the sense that it refuses to have rules…

— Theodor Adorno