Quotes about Isolation
The worse I get along with people the more I learn to have faith in Nature and concentrate on her.
— Vincent Van Gogh
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
— William Faulkner
The dark world seemed to lie stricken beneath the cold moon and the lidless stars.
— William Faulkner
Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.
— William Golding
Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you? Close, close, close! I'm the reason why it's no go? Why things are what they are?
— William Golding
Maybe," he said hesitantly, "maybe there is a beast." [...] "What I mean is, maybe it's only us.
— William Golding
I know there isn't no beast—not with claws and all that, I mean—but I know there isn't no fear, either." Piggy paused. "Unless—" Ralph moved restlessly. "Unless what?" "Unless we get frightened of people.
— William Golding
Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
— St. Jerome
It is far easier to be a Christian in isolation than it is to live out one's faith in the context of all those other imperfect people who make up God's church.
— Gordon Fee
Our natural inclination is to hide ourselves from God.
— RC Sproul
The confession of the authority of the Word of God can never be isolated from the saving content of the Word of God.
— GC Berkouwer
There is a strain of loneliness infecting many Christians, which only the presence of God can cure.
— AW Tozer