Quotes About Isolation

That sense of security derived largely from the English Channel.

diminutive island lacking in either fresh water or wood but seething with wildlife.

Santiago washed ashore before breaking up.

As soon as they had abandoned ship, Santiago broke up, and the storm carried away all her life-sustaining provisions

This was not a job designed to endear him to the other crew members, and the alguacil stood apart from the rest of the crew.

The storm had stranded the castaways about seventy miles from the rest of the fleet, without food or wood or fresh water

The castaways spent eight days in more or less the same area, disoriented, dispirited, waiting for pieces of the wreck

they rarely ate with the crew. To most of the men aboard the fleet, even the flagship, Trinidad, Ferdinand Magellan

stranding the six seamen on the little island. They passed a wretched night

whose lives depended on the food acquired in the Canaries.

You live an insular existence, going from your soundproofed cars to your air-conditioned, insulated houses. People would not say God is dead if they only looked up at the spectacular panorama of the night sky, or had an unobstructed view of the sunset.

some individuals choose to move to remote and exotic locations

This survival style's deepest longing for connection is also its deepest fear.

Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents! Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely.

I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.

Mes compagnes, mes "accompagnatrices", ne sont jamais restées longtemps: très vite elles s'en allaient, dès qu'elles comprenaient que ce qu'elles avaient d'abord pris chez moi pour du détachement était du vide; or les femmes savent que le vide engendre le vide, alors elles me quittaient, avec douceur, sans oser me dire quoi que ce soit: car que peut-on dire à un naufragé?

I wake up in the morning and I feel like I'm missing something. I know that there's something not right, and it takes me a while to remember what it is . . . then I remember. My best friend is gone. My only friend. It was silly of me to rely so much on one person.

It's been three days still haven't heard from you. My heart lives underwater breathing for you. But you break apart my tiny heart, giving me no chance to start something with you. I dove into the pool I dove in hoping to swim now I'm drowning.

Unübersetzbar. Du weißt, Niederländisch ist eine Geheimsprache, die dazu bestimmt ist andere auszuschließen.

You loved so hard and hoped so much and then you ended up with nothing. Children who no longer needed you. A husband who no longer wanted you. Nothing left but you, alone, and empty space.

Every bedroom was empty except for the smell of gasoline and a small crackling fire set directly in the middle of each bed, as if a demented Girl Scout had been camping there.

All she has left are things unwanted, things unloved.

You loved so hard and hoped so much and then you ended up with nothing. Children who no longer needed you. A husband who no longer wanted you. Nothing left but you, alone, and empty space. With

Lydia has never really had friends, but their parents have never known.