Quotes About Isolation

I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well.

In a city, you can be alone in a crowd, and in fact what makes the city a city is that it lets you hide the strangeness in your mind inside its teeming multitudes.

A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is: when I speak of writing, what comes first to my mind is not a novel, a poem, or literary tradition, it is a person who shuts himself up in a room, sits down at a table, and alone, turns inward; amid its shadows, he builds a new world with words.

I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.

It was in Cihangir that i first learned Istanbul was not an anonymous multitude of walled-in lives - a jungle of apartments where no one knew who was dead or who was celebrating what - but an archipelago of neighbourhoods in which everyone knew each other.

I was supposed to be part of a story, but I fell from there like a leaf in autumn.

It was as if he were in a place that the whole world had forgotten; as if it were snowing at the end of the world.

The only antidote to the loneliness of the streets was the streets themselves.

La razón fundamental de mi soledad es que ni siquiera yo sé de qué historia formo parte.

The essential reason for my loneliness is that I don't even know where I belong.

Ä°nsan ÅŸehirde kalabal?k içinde yaln?z olabilirdi ve ÅŸehri ÅŸehir yapan ÅŸey de zaten kalabal?k içinde insan?n kafas?ndaki tuhafl??? saklayabilme imkan?yd?.

But don't forget that arrogant men who think too much of themselves always end up alone.

pag. 74 I am a tree The essential reason for my loneliness is that I don't even know where I belong. I was supposed to be part of a story, but I fell from there like a leaf in autumn.

A man could be at the coffee-house every evening laughing and playing cards with his friends, he could have so much fun with his classmates that there is never a moment they arent´t exploding into laughter, he could spend every hour of the day chatting with his intimates, but if that man has been abandoned by God, he´d still be the loneliest man on earth.

I am nothing but a corpse now, a body at the bottom of a well. Though I drew my last breath long ago and my heart has stopped beating, no one, apart from that vile murderer, knows what's happened to me.

Kitab? okumadan önce bir dünyam vard?, kitab? okuduktan sonra baÅŸka bir dünyam olmuÅŸtu. Åžimdi konuÅŸmal?yd?k, çünkü ben bu dünyada yapayaln?z kalm??t?m.

pag. 74 I am a tree The essntial reason for my loneliness is that I don't even know where I belong. I was supposed to be part of a story, but I fell from there like a leaf in autumn. (My name is Red )

La lógica de la cuarentena —una palabra derivada de la expresión italiana <>— consistía en aislar a los enfermos para que no contagiaran a otros.

These sights spoke of a strange and powerful loneliness. It was as if he were in a place that the whole world had forgotten, as if it were snowing at the end of the world.

In a city you can be alone in a crowd and in fact what makes the city a city is that it lets you hide the strangeness in your mind in its teeming multitudes.

Evet, ama bir tiyatrocu! diye düÅŸündü. Bir aile ona ne kadar uzak!

These sights spoke of a strange and powerful loneliness.

Trenutak samoubojstva za žene je trenutak kad su najusamljenije, i kad najbolje shva?aju što zna?i biti žena.

Samo?a je stvar ponosa: osamljcnik se na veoma nadmen na?in utapa u vlastitome mirisu... Problem pravoga pjesnika zapravo je uvijek isti: ako je dugo sretan, postane otrcan. A ako je dugo nesretan, ne može u sebi na?i snagu na koju bi se njegove pjesme mogle osloniti... Sre?a i pjesništvo - to ne može dugo zajedno. Nakon nekog vremena ili sre?a obezvrijedi pjesnika i njegovu poeziju ili mu prava poezija upropasti sre?u.