Isolation Quotes

"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" "My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication— it makes them sociable I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness— it is all that I have— and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well" "Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you" "We feel lonely when we think we are supposed to be in community with others, but we are trapped behind a facade of perfection." "Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone." "If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail, it could mean derision, mockery, isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is." "You could live just a long time alone in your skin and change the locks on the door of your fears" "It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something" "If all else perished and he remained I should still continue to be and if all else remained and he were annihilated the universe would turn to a mighty stranger I should not seem a part of it" "How easy it is to die of loathing in the streets, or of contempt when at last one gets home." "We are none of us alone in this world and of all the things we are not, we are not islands" "They can never understand me, I got my own language" "I don’t want to go to heaven None of my friends are there" "We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome" "I’m afraid that sometimes you’ll play lonely games too" "No one's ever gonna throw me another lifeline." "Loneliness does not come about because people isolate themselves but because they feel they are fundamentally different from everyone else." "The writer's life is a life of solitary work" "A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle" "The artist must actively cultivate that state which most people avoid: the state of being alone."