Quotes about Isolation

Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they saw each other; and, like the stars in the sky separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing upon each other.

I bear the dungeon within me; within me is winter, ice, and despair; I have darkness in my soul.

There is a way of avoiding a person which resembles a search.

By continually going out for reverie, a day comes when you go out to drown yourself.

He had never known a kind woman friend in his native parts. He had not had the time to fall in love.

This cavern is below all, and the enemy of all; it is hatred, without exception.

He always took his meals alone, with an open book before him, which he read. He had a well-selected little library. He loved books; books are cold but safe friends. In

Happiness and despair do not breathe the same air. A man in despair participates in the life of others from a great distance; he is almost unaware of their presence; he has lost any consciousness of his own existence; he is a thing of flesh and blood but feels that he is no longer real; he sees himself only as a dream.

I cannot hate them because nothing binds me to them; I have nothing in common with them.

A man who loses his privacy loses everything. And a man who gives it up of his own free will is a monster.

Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.

Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic conditions: - (1) an elevated level of general well being which allows people to devote themselves to useless activities (2) a high degree of social atomization and , as a consequence, a general isolation of individuals; (3) the absence of dramatic social changes in the nation's internal life.