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Isolation Quotes

"It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead — and find no one there."

"You could live just a long time alone in your skin and change the locks on the door of your fears"

"Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you"

"A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle"

"People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me."

"It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something"

"The loneliest woman in the world is the woman without a close woman friend"

"Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone."

"How easy it is to die of loathing in the streets, or of contempt when at last one gets home."

"Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god."

"Nothing is so curious as the mix of an apartment far up among the chimney-pots and the little world that hurries and jostles below."

"The artist must actively cultivate that state which most people avoid: the state of being alone."

"There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman."

"All great and precious things are lonely."

"I was afraid of looking into the people's faces, their eyes were so sharp and burning. Their glances were unlike the glances of ordinary people"

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