Quotes About Isolation

Thank you, honey. I don't mean to be ungrateful, it just seems like there are no real people here. You know what I mean?" Her shoulders dropped. "Not many real people anywhere for us anymore.

When was the last time I'd been the centre of anyone's attention? From 'Or She Dies'.

like a spinster aunt left out at a family reunion. From 'Or She Dies'.

Dying, she thought, is the only way out of what is happening to me.

This was to be their place- outside of communion- forever. Maybe we call this the opposite of God.

The poor are pawns in a political-economic system contrived to keep those in power powerful and rich. Although the stake most people have in the going scheme is tiny, it's been enough to help isolate the majority of Russians from one another and keep them from acting in their common interests by joining forces against the country's top-down corruption.

I entered the empty room. I sat on the floor and drew pictures all day. One day I held a picture against the bare wall: it was a window. Climbing through, I stood in a sloping field at dusk. As I began walking, night settled. Far ahead in the valley, I saw the lights of the village, and always at my back, I felt the white room swallowing what was passed. from "The Room," Selected and New Poems. (Wesleyan University Press, 1988)

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said 'I want to be let alone!' There is all the difference.

I want to be alone.

So much has broken away already, there is nothing to drink but air, nothing left to walk on but water, yet the fasting heart grows full.

Policeman: "A hermit eh? Then why's your table set for four?" Groucho: "That's nothing. My alarm clock is set for eight.

The first men to set foot on the moon were sent to Iceland for acclimation—that's how unlike to anything else the Icelandic landscape is.

L'uomo socialissimo è l'uomo segregatissimo. Casa mai vuota d'ospiti è già figura di Gulag.

Je buvais à pleins verres les étoiles" (Mes amis m'ont enfin avoué leur mépris)

He'd somehow lived a detached life, more Like a spectator than a participant in his own existence.

Bio sam toliko blizu tebe, da mi je hladno pored drugih.

Non, reprends-toi ! La vie est belle. Tu as tout ce que tu désires. Et tu sais très bien qu'on est toujours tout seul. Dans les moments vraiment flippants de l'existence, on est tout seul. On est tout seul quand l'amour s'en va, tout seul quand les flics débarquent au petit matin, tout seul face au médecin qui nous annonce un cancer, tout seul quand on crève…

So nah war ich dir, dass mir kalt wird in der Nähe der anderen.

Ng??i ta ch? t? do khi ? m?t mình-Authur SCHOPENHAUER

Otkako znam za sebe, uvek sam ose?ao da sam sam, nekako otu?en od sveta, od larme i mediokriteta koji se šire poput zarazne bolesti. U jednom trenutku, pomislio sam da bi knjige mogle da me izbave od tog ose?aja napuštenosti i apatije, ali ne treba previše o?ekivati o knjiga. One vam pri?aju pri?e, omogu?avaju vam da proživite, posredno, deli?e stvarnosti, ali nikada vas ne?e uzeti u naru?je da vas uteše.

Retko se spasemo sasvim sami...

La mayoría de los suicidas morían desaliñados y sucios, con costras de mugre en la espalda, los dientes cariados al extremo de la podredumbre, las uñas largas y sucias, hongos en la piel, lagañosos. La muerte arribaba a ellos mucho antes de colgarse de los barrotes o de rebanarse la carótida con un trozo de azulejo.

Quise proponer una danza que mostrara los viajes en Metro como alegoría de la alienación de la sociedad contemporánea

Me costó superar el trance. Deprimida me aislé en casa a rumiar mi fracaso. Encima tuve que bregar con el enojo de Claudio por mi desnudez. Amigos suyos habían ido a las funciones. «Ellos vieron lo que solo debía ver yo», protestó. Estaba tan abatida que no tuve arrestos para enfrentar su machismo, su posesividad, su ego herido o lo que fuera.