“Prison is predicated on the idea of social & physical isolation from society. When you can’t hear the voices or listen to the stories of those incarcerated it’s easy to make them into something they’re not.”— Clint Smith, twitter.com
“Depression pushes people into isolation and robs them of the energy needed to do fun things.”— Nicole Pajer, huffingtonpost.com
“Time spent in silence is time with your true Self. It is time spent to gain clarity and build confidence.”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com
“You should be thanking me for liberating you from your world of loneliness and isolation. Now you're part of a family.”— Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, Cosmo Kramer, Michael Richards, imdb.com
“I get you, you don’t know how you feel. well, I will tell you this: the world doesn’t make much sense without the people you love.”— R. M. Drake, twitter.com
“I feel myself shutting down, closing off, like I should tell people, ‘No, we don’t use this heart anymore. It’s too fragile.”— Courtney C. Stevens,, amazon.com
“Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate from the so-called social life. My days pass by in solitude.”— Ingmar Bergman, amazon.com
“I am so 100 percent Swedish... Someone has said a Swede is like a bottle of ketchup — nothing and nothing and then all at once — splat. I think I'm a little like that. And I think I'm Swedish because I like to live here on this island. You can't imagine the loneliness and isolation in this country.…”— Ingmar Bergman, en.wikiquote.org
“Dar’st thou amid the varied multitude To live alone, an isolated thing?”— Percy Bysshe Shelley, en.wikiquote.org
“Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.”— Anton Chekhov, en.wikiquote.org
“If a person can build a fence around himself, he is bound to do it.”— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, goodreads.com
“Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.”— Erich Fromm, amazon.com
“Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated.”— Albert Einstein, einstein-website.de
“The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even during the day with covers pulled up to my chin. It was good in there, nothing ever occurred in there, no people, nothing.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.”— Nikola Tesla, npr.org
“The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.”— Carson McCullers, amazon.com