Quotes about Isolation
In May, when sea winds pierced our solitudes,I found the fresh Rhodora in the woods.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are palpable.
— Joseph Brodsky
I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape.
— John Bunyan
The Great Man is a man who lives a long way off.
— Elbert Hubbard
I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored
— Albert Camus
A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies.
— Anais Nin
Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland.
— Cormac McCarthy
But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary?
— Henry David Thoreau
Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless; then, if the virtuous do not pity you, or God compassionate, you are without a friend in the universe.
— Henry Ward Beecher
There is a need for aloneness... for an actor.
— Marilyn Monroe
A schizophrenic is a person who already has a natural tendency to absent himself from this world.
— Paulo Coelho