100 Isolation Quotes From Literature And Culture To Remind You You're Not Alone

Being isolated puts us in a difficult spot.

Just to appreciate the people who feel that they're struggling, these quotes are a tight hug that you're not alone. After all, being isolated is not all that bad and should be practiced to give you mental peace.

There's often a stigma that being alone is the worst thing that can happen to one. But let these specially curated quotes flip that notion upside down. These quotes will include quotes related to social isolation, how being alone rather isolated isn't that bad, and how you can find peace in solitude and that you're the ruler of universe in your way. You'll also find 'Frankenstein' isolation quotes, 'Catcher In The Rye' isolation quotes, 'Of Mice And Men' isolation quotes and 'Scarlet Letter' isolation quotes.

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Let these quotes take you on a much needed journey of calmness.

1. "Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all?"

― Haruki Murakami.

2. "No one saves us but ourselves. No one can, and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path."

-  Gautama Buddha.

3. "I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."

- Henry David Thoreau.

4. "One who is established in the self feels no loneliness."

- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.

5. "Depression is being colorblind and constantly told how colorful the world is."

- Atticus.

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6. "The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone."

-  Johann Wolfgange Von Goethe.

7. "Isolation doesn't bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security."

- Jimmy Page

8. "Being alone and actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives."

– Kourtney Kardashian

9. "I think it's good for a person to spend time alone."

- Amy Sedaris.

10. "A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings."

- Mandy Hale

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11. "Haste me to know't; that I, with wings as swift as meditation or thoughts of love, May sweep to my revenge."

- William Shakespeare.

12. "Being alone never felt right. Sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right."

- Charles Bukowski.

13. "The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself."

— Michel de Montaigne.

14. "I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being."

- Hafiz Of Persia.

15. "A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke."

- Vincent Van Gogh.

16. "Calm —indeed the calmest— reflection might be better than the most confused decisions."

- Franz Kafka.

17. "We live as we dream - alone."                                                

- Joseph Conrad.

18. "You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective – it just means you're human."

- David Mitchell.

19. "Isolation offered its own form of companionship"

- Jhumpa Lahiri.

20. "And for a little while he lay still, breathing lightly as if he expected total repose would restore everything to its normal and unquestionable state."

- Franz Kafka.

21. "Isolation and the potential loss of loving connection is coded by the human brain into a primal panic response."

- Sue Johnson.

22. "We can never feel alone or isolated when we understand that it is impossible for love to leave our side."

- Donna Goddard.

23. ″‘I hate meeting new people,' she whispered.

       'Why?'

      'Because they never like me. '"

-  Rainbow Rowell.

24. "Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone."    

- Dan Brown

25. "The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself - that comes too late - a crop of inextinguishable regrets."

― Joseph Conrad.

26. "Satan had his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and abhorred."

- Mary Shelley.

A word from the wise can always get us going.

26. "During isolation, one can bring a different approach to the creative process."

- Rosalia.

27. "The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in a kind of intense isolation."

- Louise Brooks.

28. "And most progress is made in isolation, far from the public eye."

- Andrew Yang.

29. "The price of being a wolf is loneliness."

- Hugh MacLeod.

30. "Ordinary men hate solitude."

- Lao Tzu.

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31. "It felt like I was completely alone and I couldn't express myself because I felt ashamed of my emotions, I want to make sure that kids realize that emotions and vulnerability are important and should be spoken about."

- Cara Delevingne.

32. "It's a lonely journey to really figure out where all this stuff is coming from."

- Selena Gomez.

33. "I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realize is that you're not alone."

- Dwayne Johnson.

34. "The screw of isolation until you can't tell what is your body and what is furniture."

- Chiwetwl Ejiofor.

35. "I love being by myself. I think that if I was in the wrong relationship, which I have been in several, that would be so much worse than the feeling of autonomy I feel right now."

- Mindy Kaling.

Feeling utterly lonely? Let these wise words from famous personalities make you feel better.

36. "It's easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone."

- Mahatma Gandhi.

37. "I was always lonely. In spite of all that I was and I am in love with life."

- Jeanette Winterson.

38. "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson.

39. "Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self."

- Mary Sarton.

40. "The loneliness you feel is actually an opportunity to reconnect with others and yourself."

- Maxime Lagacé.

41. "I am a real lone wolf who has never wholeheartedly belonged to the state, to my country, my circle of friends and not even to my family."

- Albert Einstein.

42. "If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself."

- Paulo Coelho.

43. "By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear."

- George Herbert.

44. I don't care if the whole world is against you or teasing you or saying you're not gonna make it. Believe in yourself."

- Michael Jackson.

Who better to articulate isolation and solitude than poets and writers.

45. "It's your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you."

- Rumi.

46. "There's nothing abnormal about loneliness."

- Paula Stokes.

47. "All great thing and precious things are lonely."

- John Steinbeck.

48. If you want to miss your crown, follow the crowd and if you want to wear the crown, go alone and be yourself.

- Israelmore Ayivor.

49. "None of us can be truly human in isolation."

- Harold S. Kushner.

50. "We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone."

- Orson Welles.

As they say, it takes more muscles to frown than to smile.

51. "Human beings can't bear silence. It would mean that they would bear themselves."

- Pascal Mercier.

52. "Pyjamas over People."

- Christopher Hudspeth.

53. "I think it's interesting that 'cologne' rhymes with 'alone.'"

- Demetri Martin.

54." I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone."

- Audrey Hepburn.

55. "If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little."

- George Carlin.

These quotes will keep you going.

56." If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness."

-  Sharon Salzberg.

57. "The arts can't exist without isolation."

- David Byrne.

58. "But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness."

- Megan Whalen Turner.

59. "Isolation has carved me in its image and likeness."

- Fernando Pessoa.

60. "Alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know."

- Virginia Woolf.

61. "Before COVID it was work, money and booze, but with this isolation, I discovered a whole new me and a family that had become strangers."

- Anthony T. Hincks.

62. "Isolation hones the inner voice, the unspoken dialogue between the selves."

- Steven Erikson.

63. "Be honest. What did you really learn about being in isolation? And after learning it, do you really want to go back to who you were before?"

- Anthony T Hincks.

64. "They say isolation drives you crazy. Sure it does – when you can't get enough of it."

- Anneli Rufus.

65. "Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone?"

- Thomas Wolfe.

66. "There's a great deal of scientific evidence that social connectedness is a very strong protector of emotional well-being, and I think there's no question that social isolation has greatly increased in our culture in, say, the past 50 years, past 100 years."

- Andrew Weil.

67. "The isolation, the separateness, is always a part of any utopia."

- Toni Morrison.

68. "We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding."

- Rudyard Kipling.

69. "I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe."

- Franz Kafka.

70. "Most ideas are born and lost in isolation."

- Scott Belsky.

71. "I am in no way different from anyone else, that my predicament, my sense of aloneness or isolation may be precisely what unites me with everyone."

- Franz Wright.

72. "We didn't really post him up. We just tried to put him in an isolation situation and let him make the play, and I thought he was awesome with it."

- Mike Dunleavy.

73. "Solitude is a chosen separation for refining your soul."

― Wayne Cordeiro.

74. "Humour is an antidote to isolation."

- Elizabeth Janeway.

75. "My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation."

- Luke Ford.

76. "I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone."

- Laura Marling.

77."I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation."

-  David Blaine.

78."When I write, I write in isolation."

- Jeff Kinney.

79. "Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others."

― Mokokoma Mokhonoana.

80. "I stood lonely enough, but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed: it did not oppress me much."

― Charlotte Brontë.

81. "It's important to have quiet time and isolation."

- John Burnside.

82. "Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions – and some are – attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing."

-Chelsea Quinn Yarbro.

83. "It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone."

- Marilyn Monroe.

84. "Loneliness adds beauty to life."

- Henry Rollins.

85. "A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you."

- Criss Jami.

86. "Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them."

― Jodi Picoult.

87. "There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world."

- A. R. Ammons.

88. "The strongest men are the most alone."

- Henrik Ibsen.

89." I think, if you have enough inner resources, then you can live in isolation for long periods of time and not feel diminished by it."

- Aung San Suu Kyi.

90. "Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."

-Arthur C. Clarke.

91. "Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other."

― John Steinbeck.

92. "I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity."

- Albert Einstein.

93. "I would get a lot of writing done if I lived in isolation in a cave under a swamp."

-Claire Cameron.

94. "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company."

-George Washington.

95. "Music was my refuge."

- Maya Angelou.

96. "The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself."

- Michel de Montaigne.

97. "I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference."

- Greta Garbo.

98. "The best you can do is know yourself; know what you want."

- Janet Fitch.

99. "The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone."

- Mitch Albom.

100. "Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine."

- Honoré de Balzac.

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