Isolation And Solitude Quotes

#1. The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.

Steve Schmidt

#2. It's clear to me that anyone, anywhere, can experience loneliness, isolation, solitude, and estrangement; and most people probably do encounter these things at some point in their lives.

Brendan Myers

#3. Aloneness is obviously not isolation, and it is not uniqueness. To be unique is merely to be exceptional in some way, whereas to be completely alone demands extraordinary sensitivity, intelligence, understanding.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#4. ...very lonely and, often, very unhappy, with the poignant misery that comes to lonely people who long to be social and cannot, somehow, step naturally and unselfconsciously into some friendly group

Shirley Jackson

#5. Oh, the solitariness of sin! There is nothing like it, except, perhaps, the solitariness of death. In that isolation none can reach you, none can feed you.

Hugh Reginald Haweis

#6. There is a difference between solitude and isolation. One is connected and one isn't. Solitude replenishes, isolation diminishes.

Henry Cloud

#7. Motherhood rarely allows for solitude, yet it begets its own kind of isolation: from one's past, from one's youth, from the women we once thought we were and would become.

Hannah Nordhaus

#8. It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away.

Sherman Alexie

#9. Reason has always been obliterated by the sensation of profound solitude, perhaps that is why we replace the aching of isolation with the anguish of abuse.

Elyse Draper

#10. I can be by myself because I'm never lonely; I'm simply alone, living in my heavily populated solitude, a harum-scarum of infinity and eternity, and Infinity and Eternity seem to take a liking to the likes of me.

Bohumil Hrabal

#11. Contemplation and writing demand solitude, which leads to a sorry feeling of isolation and detachment. Writers try to call their loneliness genius, and the world believes them most of the time.

Anthony Marais

#12. Solitude is a chosen separation for refining your soul. Isolation is what you crave when you neglect the first.

Wayne Cordeiro

#13. That the hardship facilitates a shared solitude, an utter isolation that has been experienced before, by others, and will be experienced again, that these others are present in spirit even if the wilds have tamed or aged or brutalized or otherwise removed their bodies.

Leslie Jamison

#14. Thinking is a way of condemning oneself to solitude.

Marty Rubin

#15. If I'm all alone, then the standard for sanity is up to me entirely.

Susan Wiggs

#16. Sometimes isolation can be shared.

Ken Grimwood

#17. Isolation, but it's a good vulnerability. Humbling. I actually seek out solitude.

Brendan Dooling

#18. I am a stranger in this world, and there is a severe solitude and painful lonesomeness in my exile.

Kahlil Gibran

#19. Thus weary of the world, away she hies,
And yokes her silver doves; by whose swift aid
Their mistress mounted through the empty skies
In her light chariot quickly is convey'd;
Holding their course to Paphos, where their queen
Means to immure herself and not be seen.

William Shakespeare

#20. I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.

Paul Theroux

#21. Prayer is an end to isolation. It is living our daily life with someone; with him who alone can deliver us from solitude.

Georges Lefebvre

#22. Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.

Jules Verne

#23. The artist is a strange being. I think it's safe to say that a real artist is conscious of having a personal singularity that is partly a blessing and partly a curse. An artist enjoys and suffers from isolation. As solitude, isolation can nurture. It can also destroy.

Peter Schjeldahl

#24. Self-absorption intensifies isolation, but permits it to go unnoticed.

Mason Cooley

#25. If any individual live too much in relations, so that he becomes a stranger to the resources of his own nature, he falls, after a while, into a distraction, or imbecility, from which he can only be cured by a time of isolation, which gives the renovating fountains time to rise up.

Margaret Fuller

#26. they were forced to feel strongly. And feeling strongly (and strongly, what was more, in solitude, in hopelessly individual isolation), how could they be stable? "Of

Aldous Huxley

#27. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

Wislawa Szymborska

#28. Isolation is aloneness that feels forced upon you, like a punishment. Solitude is aloneness you choose and embrace. I think great things can come out of solitude, out of going to a place where all is quiet except the beating of your heart.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

#29. But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#30. Politically I am neither left nor right! And this kind of political-ethical standpoint
being in the middle
usually brings about seclusion and isolation! But now I do not mind it anymore and, instead, I work more and more in my self-made solitude!

Javad Alizadeh

#31. The soul that has been enriched by communion with God will not be dismayed by isolation but will welcome solitude. He will seek not the crowd but the closet, and emerging will never walk alone, for he has unseen companionship.

Frances J Roberts

#32. Clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.

Virginia Woolf

#33. There is no greater isolation a man may experience than to be lonely in a crowd.

Claire North