Quotes About Isolation

I am so very absent. The world is overcrowded with my absence. Life is where I am not. No matter where I am…

Ich fürchte, grad unter Menschen möchtest du ein Mensch zu sein verlernen.

We are beginning to understand that the world is always being made fresh and never finished; that activism can be the journey rather than the arrival; that's struggle doesn't always have to be confrontational but can take the form of reaching out to find common ground with the many others in our society who are also seeking ways out from alienation, isolation, privatization, and dehumanization by corporate globalization.

Did I read because I was lonely, or was I lonely because I started to read?

O isolamento em companhia de uma pessoa era mais opressivo que a solidão completa.

Quando avisto essa cambada, encolho-me, colo-me às paredes como um rato assustado. Como um rato, exatamente.

Remoeu umas coisas guturais e começou a roncar. Impossível qualquer aproximação. O isolamento em companhia de uma pessoa era mais opressivo que a solidão completa. Parecia-me que aquele homem estava morto.

I can never think of you as a friend. You can do without a friend.

That was my first real experience at feeling set apart. Not only did I not knock them dead, but rather it was I that died...acutely aware of being mutton dressed up as lamb. I exchanged my white tie and tails for a white waiter's jacket and got back to my proper calling!

The shopping centre was busy, and there was a long line at O'Briens' counter, but despite the noise and the music she somehow felt isolated.

If the mystery can be reduced to one solution, it lies in a simple coincidence: Rimbaud's interest in his own work had survived the realization that the world would not be changed by verbal innovation. It did not survive the failure of all his adult relationships. He had always treated poems as a form of private communication. He gave his songs to chansonniers, his satires to satirists. Without a constant companion, he was writing in a void.

It me birthday and nobody came...Bigfoot decide do something nice for self for big day and sneak in they house at night and pick out own present and blow out flickering candle of life in they brains. Make a wish, jerks.

If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a locked cell, or, when it gets tougher still, the vague feeling of being buried alive--then don't be a writer.

I run blindly through the madhouse ... And I cannot even pray ... For I have no God.

The child, ravaged by wolves, falls quiet in the forest, and the long darkness is filled with an undisturbed silence.

Aden would phone before he left, trying to patch things up, but she could see how easy it would be, now, to break things off permanently. And now that it had reached that stage, it seemed like the obvious thing to do. She wasn't upset, or relieved - just calm. It always made her feel that way: burning bridges, driving people away. Simplifying her life.

The world is full of broken people who think they are surrounded by whole people.

I have an idea," Cazio said after a moment. "What a lonely creature it must be.

You leave white people alone in constant isolation for 2,000 years, and you know what their musical contribution will be? Riverdance!

For those he has ignored, he allows them this. He allows them God, their only ally. Places to worship, but no one to teach.

You can't be perfect unless you're alone, and then guess what? You're alone. So you're still not perfect.

For as long as I can remember, I've been out in the cold, nose up to the glass, looking in. I may not get to come inside, Jack. But I'm sure as hell not gonna let the wolves in at everyone else. No. That's one thing I'm good for.

as long as he could remember, loneliness had been his companion.

The neck-strained interaction between the floors served the Tower's design: to break the spirits of nearly indomitable men by removing from them all the trappings of civilization.