Quotes About Isolation

Benim için hakiki edebiyat?n baÅŸlad??? yer, kitaplarla kendini bir odaya kapatan adamd?r.

?itao sam u jednoj enciklopediji da rije? ateist potje?e od gr?kog athos. A ta rije? ne zna?i osobu koja ne vjeruje u Boga, nego usamljenika, osobu koju su bogovi napustili.

There's a strangeness in my mind," said Mevlut. "No matter what I do, I feel completely alone in this world." "You will never feel that way again now that I'm with you," said Rayiha with maternal feeling. As Rayiha snuggled up to him, Mevlut watched her dreamlike reflection in the window of the teahouse, and he knew that he would never forget this moment.

Havadan sudan söz ettikten ve gerekli bilgi formlar?n? titizlikle doldurduktan sonra, sorunumu sorunca, doktora, bir an, sevgilimi kaybettiÄŸim için kendimi uzaya yollanm?? bir köpek gibi yaln?z hissettiÄŸimi söylemek geldi içimden...

Darkness... When everything that you know and love... is taken from you so harshly... all you can think about is anger, hatred, and even revenge... and no one can save you.

We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we dream that thought could arise from the lonely animals who cannot dream each other's dreams.

I know, you've been here a year, you think these people are normal. Well, they're not. WE'RE not. I look in the library, I call up books on my desk. Old ones, because they won't let us have anything new, but I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares. Children aren't in armies, they aren't COMMANDERS, they don't rule over forty other kids, it's more than anybody can take and not get crazy.

Being here alone with nothing to do, I've been thinking about myself too. Trying to understand why I hate myself so badly.

I didn't want to hurt him! Ender cried. Why didn't he just leave me alone!

That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends.

it's so easy, when you never meet people, when you never know the Earth itself... it's easy to forget why Earth is worth saving. Why the world of people might be worth the price you pay.

Don't make fun of me! Ender said. I'm afraid I'm going crazy.

Ender leaned his head against the wall of the corridor and cried until the bus came. I am just like Peter. Take my monitor away, and I am just like Peter.

For now that they could not be together, they must be infinitely apart, and what had been sure and unshakable was now fragile and insubstantial; from the moment we are not together, Alai is a stranger, for he has a life now that will be no part of mine, and that means that when I see him we will not know each other.

Graff had isolated Ender to make him struggle. To make him prove, not that he was competent, but that he was far better than everyone else. That was the only way he could win respect and friendship. It made him a better soldier then he would ever have been otherwise. It also made him lonely, afraid, angry, untrusting. And maybe those traits, too, made him a better soldier.

The loneliness of power.

Loneliness is at the heart of Ender's Game, and the reason it works so well is because it carries with it the firm assurance that even though Ender never feels himself to belong,the reader knows he does belong, that he is the ultimate insider even though he stands outside.

They did not wait so eagerly for each new transmission from the ansible; the names that were famous on earth meant little to them now.

But most of those to whom Ender's Game feels most important are those who, like me, feel themselves to be perpetually outside their most beloved communities, never able to come inside and feel confident of belonging.

aislarle lo suficiente para no ahogar su creatividad, pues en caso contrario adoptará el sistema imperante aquí y le echaremos a perder

That's the problem with winning right from the start, though Ender. You lose friends.

That's how they think of me, too. Teacher. Legendary soldier. Not one of them. Not someone that you embrace and whisper Salaam in his ear. That only lasted while Ender still seemed a victim. Still seemed vulnerable. Now he was the master soldier, and he was completely, utterly alone.

Everybody needs rescuing. Lonely people need rescuing, anyway. There's nothing but lonely people in this world. Even people who think they're not lonely, they're aching with loneliness or the fear of being lonely. So we saved each other every day for the past couple of months.

Graff had deliberately set him up to be separate from the other boys, made it impossible for him to be close to them. And he began now to suspect the reasons behind it. It wasn't to unify the rest of the group—in fact, it was divisive. Graff had isolated Ender to make him struggle. To make him prove, not that he was competent, but that he was far better than everyone else.