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100+ Isolation Quotes for Instagram Captions to capture your Days Alone At Home

Are you feeling like just being alone right now and want the perfect quote to match your mood? Look no further as we have you no less than 100+ Isolation Quotes!

You will be sure to find the ideal one to capture your mood for the perfect Instagram caption in this list!

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100+ Isolation Quotes for Instagram Captions

Isolation Captions

Whether you feel alone or you are stuck at home, here are some isolation captions for you:

“Isolation is the worst possible counselor.” – Miguel de Unamuno

“Even if I grew wings and escaped, I would still be trapped by my own mind.” – Unknown

“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.” — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Sometimes, you just need a break. In a beautiful place. Alone. To figure everything out.” – Unknown

“I hide all my scars with an “I’m fine”. – Unknown

“I prefer to distance myself whenever I’m in a bad mood because I’ll become the most heartless person you’ll ever meet.” – Unknown

“Sometimes isolation can be shared.” – Ken Grimwood

“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

“Isolation is a self-defeating dream.” – Carlos Salinas de Gortari

“Most ideas are born and lost in isolation.” – Scott Belsky

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Frankenstein Isolation Quotes

Here are some of the best Frankenstein Isolation Quotes:

“I have no friend, Margaret: when I am glowing with the enthusiasm of success, there will be none to participate my joy; if I am assailed by disappointment, no one will endeavor to sustain me in dejection.” – Walton

“I greatly need a friend who would have sense enough not to despise me as romantic, and affection enough for me to regulate my mind.” – Walton

“I try in vain to be persuaded that the pole is is the seat of frost and desolation; it ever presents itself to my imagination as a region of beauty and delight. There Margret, the sun is forever visible; its broad disk just skirting the horizon, and diffusing a perpetual splendor.”-Walton

“What hope can I gather from your fellow creatures, who owe me nothing? They spurn and hate me. The desert mountains and dreary glaciers are my refuge.” – Monster to Frankenstein

“I knew that I possessed no money, no friends, no kind of property. I was, besides, endowed with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome; I was not even of the same nature as man …. When I looked around, I saw and herd none like me. Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all man fled, and whom all men disowned?”

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Loneliness Quotes

Do you feel lonely right now? Here are some loneliness quotes:

“A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone.” — Mandy Hale

“People think being alone makes you lonely, but I don’t think that’s true. Being surrounded by the wrong people is the loneliest thing in the world.” ― Kim Culbertson

“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.” – Henry Rollins

“Loneliness is not lack of company, loneliness is lack of purpose.” – Guillermo Maldonado

“Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you’ll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.” ― Janet Fitch

“There’s nothing abnormal about loneliness.” – Paula Stokes

“Loneliness is like an hired assassin that stalks you, it waits and tortures you with it’s presence and then takes everything from you including your life.” – Unknown

“I’ve noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.”― Paulo Coelho

“Loneliness is painful. But suffering is not wrong in and of itself. It’s part of the human experience, and in a way brings us closer to all people.”― Juliette Fay

“Though we are all human beings, we have built walls between ourselves and our neighbors through nationalism, through race, caste, and class – which again breeds isolation, loneliness.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Being Alone Quotes

“Sometimes you need to be alone. Not to be lonely, but to enjoy your free time being yourself.” – Anonymous

“Sometimes you need to take a break from everyone and spend time alone to experience, appreciate, and love yourself.” – Robert Tew

“If you are alone, you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion, you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct, and if you have more than one companion, you will fall more deeply into the same plight.” – Leonardo da Vinci

“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony.” ― Douglas Coupland

“When I get lonely these days, I think: So Be lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert

“The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition. You can live with almost any condition if you’re living within a community of people who can share a common understanding. We create these communities from women who share common conditions, and those mothers carry each other through.” – Annie Lennox

“Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.” – Barbara Kingsolver

“The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.” – Pearl S. Buck

“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.” – Anne Frank

Isolate Yourself Quotes

“A person is a person through other persons; you can’t be human in isolation; you are human only in relationships.” – Desmond Tutu

“Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.” – Albert Einstein

“The walls of isolation are not as solid as your suffering makes them seem.” – Deepak Chopra

“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

“Other people may complicate our lives, but life without them would be unbearably desolate. None of us can be truly human in isolation. The qualities that make us human emerge only in the ways we relate to other people.” – Harold S. Kushner

“Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair.” – Bell Hooks

“Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.” – Thomas Carlyle

“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
“And yet, these insights of connectedness and oneness, which make us feel so at home in the world, are so difficult to hold onto. And so, inevitably, we wind up living lives of isolation and loneliness.” – Irwin Kula

“People often expect the other person to respond first in a positive way, instead of taking the initiative to create that possibility. I feel that’s wrong; it can act as a barrier that just promotes a feeling of isolation from others. To overcome feelings of isolation and loneliness, your underlying attitude makes a tremendous difference – approaching others with the thought of compassion in your mind is the best way.” – Dalai Lama

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Sad Lonely Quotes

“What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?” – George Eliot

“I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.” – Robin Williams

“Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Language… has created the word ‘loneliness’ to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word ‘solitude’ to express the glory of being alone.” – Paul Tillich

“The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.” – Tom Wolfe

“The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.” – Edward Gibbon

“Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.” – Joseph Conrad

“Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.” – Lillian Hellman

“Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all.” – Oscar Wilde

“Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition.” – Amelia Barr

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All Alone Quotes

“As I get older I’m more and more comfortable being alone.” – Sienna Miller

“If you smile when you are alone then you really mean it.” –Andy Rooney

“What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.” –Ellen Burstyn

“We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.”– Orson Welles

“Sometimes being surrounded by everyone is the loneliest, because you’ll realize you have no one to turn to.”― Soraya

“We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.” – Yul Brynner

“I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I’m really scared of being alone; because if I’m left to my own devices, I’ll just turn into a madwoman.” – Claire Danes

“There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.” – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Lonely Life Quotes

“I like being alone. I have control over my own shit. Therefore, in order to win me over, your presence has to feel better than my solitude. You’re not competing with another person, you’re competing with my comfort zones.” – Horacio Jones

“Being alone & actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.” – Kourtney Kardashian

“We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.” – Orson Welles

“Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that’s all you have.” – James Dean

“I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it’s just as much about loneliness.”- Jason Schwartzman

“A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.” – Chanakya

“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

“The whole value of solitude depends upon one’s self; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it.” – John Lubbock

“There is no such thing as a good or bad ad in isolation. What is good at one moment is bad at another. Research can trap you into the past.” – William Bernbach

“Living alone, though it may not be the state you ultimately desire for yourself, affords an unparalleled opportunity to know yourself, to be yourself, and to develop yourself as a unique and interesting individual.” – Phyllis Hobe

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Solitude Quotes

Here are some of the best solitude quotes:

“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.” – Arthur Schopenhauer

“There is a difference between solitude and isolation. One is connected and one isn’t. Solitude replenishes, isolation diminishes.” – Henry Cloud

“We need solitude, because when we’re alone, we’re free from obligations, we don’t need to put on a show, and we can hear our own thoughts.” – Tamim Ansary

“Some people can’t stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I’m a regular talking machine. It’s all or nothing for me.” – Celine Dion

“If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.” – Maya Angelou

“Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone.”― Marty Rubin

“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”– Anonymous

“Solitude is the beginning of all freedom.”– William Orville Douglas

“Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.”– Paul Brunton

“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.” – Albert Einstein

“Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.” – Octavio Paz

Better To Be Alone Quotes

“Find company within yourself and you’ll never spend a day alone. Find love within yourself and you’ll never have a lonely day.” –Connor Chalfant

“There are worse things than feeling alone. Things like being with someone and still feeling alone.”- M.W Poetry

“The best part about being alone is that you really don’t have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.” – Justin Timberlake

“A broken relationship can make you feel lonelier than when you were single.” – Uknown

“If you want to miss your crown follow the crowd. If you want to wear the crown, go alone and be yourself. – Israelmore Ayivor

“Too many women throw themselves into romance because they’re afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won’t do that.” – Julie Delpy

“It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.” – Marilyn Monroe

“First meditate, be blissful, then much love will happen of its own accord. Then being with others is beautiful and being alone is also beautiful. Then it is simple, too. You dont depend on others and you dont make others dependent on you.” – Rajneesh

“I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.” – Henry David Thoreau

“There was nothing lonelier than a man with a million friends.” – William Shatner

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    MC Miller is a travel blogger and writer who has travelled America extensively and abroad to over 80 countries. He founded Couple Travel The World in 2017. Since then, he has spent over 6 years on the road as a full time travel couple. When he not traveling he likes to spend quality time with his partner Bett, planning our their next date or romantic getaway!