Quotes About Isolation

She must disappear for a time from the human surface, And sacrifice everything for this, To recreate herself from the depths of her world.

Elle avait l'impression d'être subitement devenue le centre du monde, quand son monde à elle n'existait plus.

La vida avanzaba para los demás, mientras que a mí siempre me dejaba de lado, yo permanecía bloqueado en la edad de las cosas inmóviles. Mi vida sexual se parecía a una película sueca. A veces sin subtítulos incluso.

La dicha se convierte en una isla en el pasado, inaccesible.

This is nourishing, redemptive we become less alone inside.

Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.

[Television is] an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.

Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.

The television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.

The deepest ache of the soul is the spiritual longing for connection and belonging. No one was created for isolation. "Nothing in creation is ever totally at home in itself," says John O'Donohue. "No thing is ultimately at one with itself."2

Far from being a sign of weakness, only surrender to something or someone bigger than us is sufficiently strong to free us from the prison of our egocentricity. Only surrender is powerful enough to overcome our isolation and alienation.

We seek bridges from our isolation through people, possessions and accomplishment. But none of these are ever quite capable of satisfying the restlessness of the human heart. To be human is to have been designed for intimate relationship with the Divine.

families from remote stations

It's just that I'm curious, that's all. He usually walks alone" "Yeah, he's a loner, all right," the waitress murmured. "Even when he's with someone, he's alone.

In American prisons, which are extraordinarily violent places, the most vicious form of punishment is simply to lock a person in an empty room for years with absolutely nothing to do. This emptying of any possibility of communication or meaning is the real essence of what violence really is or does.

Spending all day in a sterile office environment, I'm too mentally numb to do anything but consume meaningless media," he says.

we now know that placing prisoners in solitary confinement for more than six months at a stretch inevitably results in physically observable forms of brain damage. Human beings are not just social animals; they are so intrinsically social that if they are cut off from relations with other humans, they begin to decay physically.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857–1935), a reclusive, near-deaf, self-taught rural schoolteacher who, working alone and having almost no contact with the wider scientific community, invented ingenious engineering designs for multistage rockets, orbiting space colonies, and interplanetary craft. Though

Als dat klopt, als je je echt tussen haakjes voelt, laat mij dan tenminste ook binnen. De rest van de wereld mag buiten blijven, laat de wereld maar de factor buiten de haakjes zijn waarmee wij binnen vermenigvuldigd worden.

Se è davvero così, se ti senti tra parentesi, permettimi allora di infilarmici dentro, e che tutto il mondo rimanga fuori, che sia solo l'esponente al di fuori della parentesi e ci moltiplichi al suo interno.

Sorgen dömer den levande till en ensamhet utan like, som ensamheten i vilken sjukdomen innesluter den sjuke -

Sprofondò in se stessa, cancellando tutto quello che le stava attorno, quel peso opprimente e insopportabile. Fuggì, anche se nessuno se ne accorse.

Se una persona, non importa chi, decide di chiudersi in se stessa, di isolarsi spiritualmente per portare a termine una missione difficile, non importa quale, potrà mai tornare a essere quella di prima? Esattamente come prima?

c'è chi non si sente soffocare in una stanza dopo cinquant'anni e c'è a chi non basta un'intera nazione.