Quotes about Isolation

It is the monotony of his own nature that makes a man find solitude intolerable.

Despair and isolation are my greatest internal enemies. I need to remember I am not alone, even when it feels that way. Now more than ever it is time to put my solitary ways behind me, even while protecting my solitude.

I had discovered a new world called voluntary aloneness.

I dont work with collectives. I don't consult, i don't co-operate, I don't collaborate.

He never felt lonliness except when he was happy.

There was nothing she could say to them--nothing would be heard or answered. What were the weapons, she thought, in a realm where reason was not a weapon any longer? It was a realm she could not enter.

The walls are cracked and water runs upon them within threads without sound, black and glistening as blood.

The egotist in the absolute sense is not the man who sacrifices others. He is the man who stands above the need of using others in any manner. He does not function through them. He is not concerned with them in any primary matter. Not in his aim, not in his motive, not in his thinking, not in his desires, not in the source of his energy. He does not exist for any other man—and he asks no other man to exist for him.

It was only in the first few years that she felt herself screaming silently, at times, for a glimpse of human ability, a single glimpse of clean, hard, radiant competence. She had fits of tortured longing for a friend or enemy with a mind better than her own.

In space, no one can you scream; an in a black hole, no one can see you disappear

Aloneness exaggerates our emotions and sensitivity.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.