Quotes About Isolation

the kid was leaning against the window.

The point is that hell is separate from love. If Lucifer knows anything, he knows that. And ever since Emma left, I'd known the same thing. It's a lonely, desolate place.

The more TV you watch, the fewer friendships you are likely to have, the less trusting you become, and the less happy you are likely to be.

As much as we complain about other people, there is nothing worse for mental health than a social desert.

Semenza had his own special interest in getting people together. The story of his introduction to the geography of loneliness is worth remembering.

The strangers we encounter on the web are abstractions, not a physical presence—we are interfacing with them, not interacting.

They are also increasingly isolated. The new isolation involves spatial, economic, educational, cultural, and, to some degree, political isolation. This growing isolation has been accompanied by growing ignorance about the country over which they have so much power.

Instead of feeling sorry for the exceptionally able student who has no one to talk to, we need to worry about what happens when the exceptionally able students hang out only with one another.

I saw an infinity of such dreary evenings stretching out ahead of me. Trapped in a dirty old house with a grieving old woman and an irritable young one. And with only the books I had brought with me, most of which were still in my trunk anyway.

Men will live like billy goats if they are let alone.

The kind of people I know now don't have barbecues, Mama. They stand up alone at nights in small rooms and eat cold weenies. My so-called friends are bums. Many of them are nothing but rats. They spread T.B. and use dirty language. They're wife-beaters and window peepers and night crawlers and dope fiends. They have running sores on the backs of their hands that never heal. They peer up from cracks in the floor with their small red eyes and wait for chances.

Sunny Mildura is a real riviera oasis town – it's as isolated as anywhere you'll find in Victoria, but after driving for hours past parched farmlands, you're greeted by miles of fertile vineyards and citrus orchards and a prosperous riverside city centre.

I never dreamed that islands, about fifty or sixty miles apart, and most of them in sight of each other, formed of precisely the same rocks, placed under a quite similar climate, would have been differently tenanted.

I must write…I like to write. Sometimes I'm afraid that I like it too much because when I get into work I don't want to leave it. As a result I'll go for days without leaving the house or wherever I happen to be. I'll go out long enough to get papers and pick up some food and that's it. It's strange, but instead of hating writing I love it too much. --Harper Lee

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.

MY SECRET IDENTITY IS The room is empty, And the window is open

Inside is where we meet everyone else; it's on the outside that we are truly alone.

They wheeled out the ash blonde who believes herself already dead into the spike-fenced garden of the hospital for the insane. Her name was Amy or Ann, but she didn't answer to either one. She kept her eyes tightly shut. [...] Some of it was told to me by a shivering young man who insisted that it's been raining for years, even indoors. "Coming down real hard," he said.

Estranged from family and friends While racking our brains whether The world we see is truly out there, Or it never leaves our minds.

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.

Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.

Poetry is an orphan of silence.

Why do vampires have no friends? They suck.

Now he realized that somehow those who had served in France and elsewhere knew a world that couldn't be shared. How could he tell his sister—or even his father, if the elder Rutledge was still alive—what had been done on bloody ground far from home? It would be criminal to fill their minds with scenes that no one should have to remember. No one.