Quotes about Isolation

If we react with more emotion than is appropriate for an isolated incident, it's probably not so isolated. The escalated emotion of this situation is probably an indication of painful ties to the past.

Sartre felt that Hell is other people, but precisely the opposite is true. Hell is being left alone forever with no other reality than your own consciousness of yourself. It is being locked in a casket of your own internal chaos with no hope of a window, or door leading in light from outside to give you a moment's respite from yourself. Hell is the refusal of the gift of the other.

I left poor Scylla in a niche and fled. My fever'd parchings up, my scathing dread Met palsy half way: soon these limbs became 640 Gaunt, wither'd, sapless, feeble, cramp'd, and lame.

I'm not going to sacrifice love, real love, for any *%@$n' war or any friend, or any business, because in the end you're alone at night.

There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room.

Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.

Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem most important to you.

Solitude sometimes is the best society.

If you want to be your own god, you have to settle for living in a tiny universe where there is room for only one person.

He who is alone with his sins is utterly alone. DIETRICH BONHOEFFER

Everyone has a home but me.

Those with extra money discover how much more satisfying it is to see talent and fairness grow than to see objects accumulate. Those without money learn the valuable lesson that money doesn't cure all woes. Instead, it may actually insulate and isolate.