In the modern world, people are constantly surrounded by social media and other screens to make their days more interesting and exciting. The problem is that we don’t take time to give ourselves time to recharge, making us irritated and cranky.
The internet can be a great source of information, but it can also negatively impact your mental health. As a result, we need to find ways to take control of our own lives and not let the outside world control us.
When you’re feeling lonely or want some time alone, please don’t feel guilty about it! Instead, see this as an opportunity for you to do what you enjoy most with no distractions from other people or social media. It will feel good to spend some time doing what makes YOU happy!
Browse our huge collection of great quotes to help you feel less lonely or just to give you some insight and strength.
45 Inspirational Quotes On Isolation
1. “You are the salt of the earth. But remember that salt is useful when in association, but useless in isolation.” ~ Israelmore Ayivor
2. “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
3. “My upbringing has given me sympathy for the idea of isolation and what it is to be a new person in the room, where everyone else has some amount of familiarity and comfort.” ~ Julianne Moore
4. “Why do people have to be this lonely? What’s the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness? — Haruki Murakami
5. “Solitude is a chosen separation for refining your soul. Isolation is what you crave when you neglect the first.” ~ Wayne Cordeiro
6. “We don’t heal in isolation but in community.” ~ S. Kelley Harrell
7. “I would get a lot of writing done if I lived in isolation in a cave under a swamp.” ~ Claire Cameron
8. “But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.” ~ Megan Whalen Turner
9. “There is a difference between solitude and isolation. One is connected and one isn’t. Solitude replenishes, isolation diminishes.” ~ Henry Cloud
10. “Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person’s heart and dissolve it.” ~ Haruki Murakami
11. “She could be lively only in the midst of life; in isolation she dwindled to a shadow.” ~ Stefan Zweig
12. “Isolation has carved me in its image and likeness.” ~ Fernando Pessoa
13. “Sometimes we must take the most important journey’s in isolation; alone except for the experience itself.” ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
14. “…it begins with isolation – demons always inhabit desolate places…” ― John Geddes
15. “Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone?” ~ Thomas Wolfe
16. “In isolation, you just lose the company but don’t lose the purpose.” ~ Amit Kalantri
17. “Most ideas are born and lost in isolation.” ~ Scott Belsky
18. “We felt so lonely in the crowd. And now we feel so connected in isolation.” ~ Hrishikesh Agnihotri
19. “At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.” ~ Boris Pasternak
20. “We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.” ~ Rudyard Kipling
21. “Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others.” ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
22. “I am a stranger in this world, and there is a severe solitude and painful lonesomeness in my exile.” ~ Kahlil Gibran
23. “A stark sense of isolation encloses anyone who looks outward for validation.” ~ Gina Barreca
24. “Most of the geniuses have a record of being isolated from the masses—Because great ideas come only when you’re alone. Same as revelation to the prophets.” ~ Mwanandeke Kindembo
25. “A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.” ~ Will Cuppy
26. “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
27. “Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.” ~ Joseph Roux
28. “I have such a fear of finding another like myself, and such a desire to find one! I am so utterly lonely, but I also have such a fear that my isolation be broken through, and I no longer be the head and ruler of my universe.” ~ Anaïs Nin
29. “Sometimes isolation can be shared.” ~ Ken Grimwood
30. “You have entered an abnormal, lonely, and unwelcome new world where you are nothing but an island of sadness.” ~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
31. “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
32. “This is what it means to be alone: everyone is connected to everyone else, their bodies are a bright liquid life flowing around you, sharing a single heart that drives them to move all together. If the shark comes, they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten.” ~ Barbara Kingsolver
33. “Isolation offered its own form of companionship.” ~ Jhumpa Lahiri
34. “If isolation is the furnace of transformation, I could be ashes by now.” ~ Stephen Christian
35. “The isolation, the separateness, is always a part of any utopia.” ~ Toni Morrison
36. “If you liked being alone all the time, that would be one thing. But I don’t actually think you do. I think you’re just letting yourself be scared.” ~ Katie Cotugno
37. “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
38. “And he wonders, deep in the self-isolated recesses of his mind whether he is killing himself with anger, whether he is destroying his system with fury.” ~ Richard Matheson
39. “The walls of isolation are not as solid as your suffering makes them seem.” ~ Deepak Chopra
40. If you’re enjoying these quotes, make sure to read our collection of lonely quotes to help you navigate solitide.
41. “Anything that inspires addiction or obsession – substances, entertainment, beauty, secrecy – is dangerous in that it can lead to isolation, self-absorption, and disconnection, to paralyzed stasis: an immobility that gathers like a force.” ~ Greg Carlisle
42. “Isolation hones the inner voice, the unspoken dialogue between the selves.” ~ Steven Erikson
43. “They say isolation drives you crazy. Sure it does – when you can’t get enough of it.” ~ Anneli Rufus
44. “Isolation serves as the ideal antidote to the bone-aching stresses of work.” ~ Fennel Hudson
45. “Over time, as most people fail the survivor’s exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw from relationships. The isolation of the survivor thus persists even after she is free.” ~ Judith Lewis Herman
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