Quotes About Isolation

As for Peter – we didn't even suggest a meeting, and so he didn't have a chance to tell us to go to hell.

You are lonely…. And humans are not meant to be alone. It's in our genes. We're social beings. Even the most introverted person alive is constantly hungry for human association.

But when you're already going crazy from confinement, it doesn't matter how much you like somebody, how much you love them, how grateful you are for their kindness to you. They will make you nuts. Everything they do grates on you like a bad song that won't get out of your head.

You've got to do something with your life,' said Mazer. And there it was: The tacit recognition that Ender wasn't going home. That he was never going to lead a normal life on Earth.

He had thought that he valued his solitude; now, though, with solitude forced upon him, he felt an urgent need to talk, to be heard by someone, as if he could not be sure he even existed without someone's conversation as evidence.

Shy people might take their doses of companionship like an ill-tasting medicine, but they need it, and they suffer a thousand maladies, physical and mental, if they don't have it.

They make Lord of the Flies look like Pollyanna." "When did you read Pollyanna?" "It was a book?

Novinha could not bear the prospect of company, of kindness, of people trying to console her.

The touch of kindness in this frightening place was enough to push someone over the edge into tears.

But a person who really believes she doesn't belong to any community at all invariably kills herself, either by killing her body or by giving up her identity and going mad.

I suspect that this is the true tragedy of the human condition. The more closely we're involved with other people, the more isolated and misunderstood we feel. Because nobody can possible know us, and we can't possible know anybody, not even ourselves. Wakers, p 427/566

Yes, he was alone, but he needed to be alone; until now, he had not really understood how painful and heavy it was to have the needs of others always in his heart and on his mind.

He wasn't preoccupied, he was unoccupied. He had detached himself from the world. And her job was to reconnect him. To bring him back and show him his place in the web of humanity.

Orson Scott Card

He spent the afternoon alone in the streets.

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for a moment that we're not alone.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Binecuvantati cei ce sunt binecuvantati numai de boli de boli clasificabile. Binecuvantati saracii, bolnavii, cei tradati in iubire, caci cei din jur stiu macar ce-i cu ei si le vor asculta cu simpatie vaicarelilor. Dar intelege oare suferinta exilului cel ce nu a indurat-o?

A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.

If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.

Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.

Genius is lonely.