Quotes about Isolation

Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

My friends, there are no friends.

All are dead, and ourselves left alone amidst a new generation whom we know not, and who know us not.

Our cellphones can do everything, but they're bad at letting us talk to each other.

I'm perpetually lonely.

Anyone would be lying if they said they didn't get lonely at times.

The words alone, lonely, and loneliness are three of the most powerful words in the English language...those words say that we are human; they are like the words hunger and thirst. But they are not words about the body, they are words about the soul.

It's no wonder I hid from the world. It's no wonder parties made me tired or I got exhausted after I spoke. It's no wonder criticism made me angry or I overreacted to failure. I think the part of me I sent out to interact with the world was, in some ways, underdeveloped, still trying to be bigger and smarter as a measure of survival.

When a person has no other persons he invents them because he was not designed to be alone, because it isn't good for a person to be alone.