Isolation Quotes

“Once upon a time there was a man who was so lonely he lived in a world of his own.”

“The gentiles are our enemies; do not associate with them.”

“I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute, and voluntary withdrawal from this public world to one of private performance and electronic media.”

“The sentence is a lonely place.”

“And the pride that raises a tower of its loneliness, it is a prison, hard and cold.”

“Isolation is a self-defeating dream.”

“The man with whom I have always been.”

“The great Australian loneliness.”

“I had a curious feeling that I was a ghost, a spirit from another world.”

“I am alone and miserable. Man will not associate with me, but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me.”

“When you're in solitary confinement, you're in a world of your own.”

“I never had a girlfriend. I never had a friend.”

“It is a terrible thing to be an exception.”

“And this is how I sometimes think of myself, as a great explorer who has discovered some extraordinary land from which he can never return to give his knowledge to the world: but the name of this land is hell.”

“I don't go to clubs, I don't go to raves. I don't listen to that much music.”

“The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.”

“The worst prison would be a closed heart.”

“I've always been a bit of a loner. I've always felt that I'm not a part of things.”

“There is this illusion that we are all connected, but the reality is that we are more isolated than ever before.”

“When you are a goalie, you're on an island. If you make a mistake, it's a goal.”