Quotes about Isolation

Surely there is no more wretched sight than the human body unloved

Surely there is no more wretched sight than the human body unloved and uncared for.

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer.

"Sometimes," said she, "I think that is my permanent feeling towards people. I like the world, the sky and the earth and the greater mystery beyond. But people—yes, they are all monkeys to me."

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

Things could be worse is wearing thin. I'm exhausted. I'm confused. I am effectively talking to the air.

Truth is, instead of fixing everything, the Arcadia made everything real. Camellia's gone. Lark and Gabion are far away. Queenie's buried in a pauper's grave, and Briny's heart went there with her. He's lost his mind to whiskey, and he doesn't want to come back. Not even for me. Not even for Fern. We're not enough.

I shouldn't precisely have chosen madness if there had been any choice, but once such a thing has taken hold of you, you can't very well get out of it.

So what do you want? Does what happens inside show on the outside? There is such a great fire in one's soul, and yet nobody ever comes to warm themselves there, and passersby see nothing but a little smoke coming from the top of the chimney, and go on their way.

I am unable to describe exactly what is the matter with me; now and then there are horrible fits of anxiety, apparently without cause, or otherwise a feeling of emptiness and fatigue in the head.

For me, life may well continue in solitude. I have never perceived those to whom I have been most attached other than as through a glass, darkly.

oy where did my ear go?