Quotes about Isolation

You have left me so long to struggle against death alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!

My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning; my great thought in living is himself.

This is certainly a beautiful country!  In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society. 

It is so strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world!

How often am I to call you? There are only a few red ashes now. Joseph! come this moment.' Vigorous puffs, and a resolute stare into the grate, declared he had no ear

The grey church looked greyer, and the lonely church looked lonelier.

I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye.

I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.

Quite simply, our isolation from nature has become isolation from God's Word. Cocooned in our manmade world of climate-controlled homes, cars, subways, and high-rises, we're finding it easier to live as practical atheists.

Too many of us are lonely ministers practicing a lonely ministry.

Solitude is the practice of being absent from people and things to attend to God.

Let the person who cannot be alone beware of community. Let the person who is not in community beware of being alone."17