Quotes about Isolation
So Amnon’s attendant threw her out and bolted the door behind her. Now Tamar was wearing a robe of many colors, because this is what the king’s virgin daughters wore.
— 2 Samuel 13:18
On the third day after I gave birth, this woman also had a baby. We were alone, with no one in the house but the two of us.
— 1 Kings 3:18
while he himself traveled on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”
— 1 Kings 19:4
So King Uzziah was a leper until the day of his death. He lived in isolation, leprous and cut off from the house of the LORD, while his son Jotham had charge of the royal palace to govern the people of the land.
— 2 Chronicles 26:21
For now you are of no help; you see terror, and you are afraid.
— Job 6:21
then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me.
— Job 9:31
He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.
— Job 17:6
He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me.
— Job 19:13
My kinsmen have failed me, and my friends have forgotten me.
— Job 19:14
My guests and maidservants count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.
— Job 19:15
My breath is repulsive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own family.
— Job 19:17
Even little boys scorn me; when I appear, they deride me.
— Job 19:18