Isolation Loneliness Quotes

“We do not want to be told what we know. We do not want to call things by their names, although we're willing to call one another bad ones. We call meanness nobility and hatred honor. The way to make yourself a hero is to make me out a scoundrel. You won't admit that either, but it's true.”
― Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel

“The pain we feel in separation is the price we pay for love.”
― Hatef Mokhtar, The Red Wrath - A Journey Between Two Destinies

“The myth of self-sufficiency demands optimism without end, downplays life’s challenges, and shames us when, inevitably, we fall short.”
― Ashton Applewhite, This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism

“One real meeting is much better than a thousand internet or social media words.”
― Stephen Richards

“The isolation spins its mysterious cocoon, focusing the mind on one place, one time, one rhythm......

.....you can live any story you want to tell yourself, and no one will say you're wrong: not the seagulls, nor the prisms, nor the wind.”
― M L Stedman

“Social Distancing can create anxiety, loneliness, and depression. A sovereign being views Solitude as time to sand the rust off your vehicle, re-grout your shower, rake the leaves, or renovate yourself. Solitude is meditation in motion.”
― Deborah Bravandt

“I know that hunger for self-isolation, it eats u up. Disconnecting yourself from external world and longing to disappear.”
― Shreya Gupta

“Isolation gives time but not immunity.”
― Lamine Pearlheart

“Some see solitude as loneliness. Others see it as a foetal state from which to blunder out into the world. I see it as a breathing space for contemplation and, indeed, breeding space for ideas.”
― Stewart Stafford

“There is nothing as lonely as being in isolation, and problems still follow you.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“It’s not the loneliness that lengthens the cracks. In the long run, it’s the isolation. -Bibiana Krall, Axon Drift”
― Bibiana Krall

“A missed opportunity here; when else, and where else, will she ever have the chance to dance again? The answer is never, and nowhere.”
― Maile Chapman, Your Presence Is Requested at Suvanto

“No good ever came from putting up walls. What people mistook for safety was in fact captivity. And few things thrived in captivity.”
― Louise Penny, A Trick of the Light