Quotes About Isolation

To be in love was to understand how alone one had been before. It was to know that if one were ever alone again, there would be no exemption from the agony of it. It wasn't the happiest feeling.

So when I say that I am a refugee, you must understand that there is no refuge.

In my world death will come chasing. In your world it will start whispering in your ear to destroy yourself. I know this because it started whispering to me when I was in the detention center.

If I was telling this story to the girls from back home, I would have to explain to them how it was possible to be drowning in a river of people and also feel so very, very alone.

To be in love was to understand how alone one had been before.

Sometimes I feel as lonely as the Queen of England.

There was no ritual when one fell apart, society preferring to wait until one was lost entirely. The

Leave me alone, you big fat shitburger!

Throughout his life, honors he had sought, honors he had not sought, were his, often at a younger age than anyone before him. Now, when he needed his magic the most, he was despised, abandoned, isolated, and utterly unable to control events around him, the first and only elected president in American history to be denied re-nomination by his own party. The last redoubt of Pierce supporters may have been within his own cabinet, the only one to remain intact over a four-year term.

she'd wanted to do was shut herself away — and think.

A common expression among laid-off workers fifty-five years and older who are struggling to find work is "you don't even exist." You cobble a job here and a job there, always marginal to management. Apply for a job you're well qualified for and you'll probably never hear back from the employer.

The split in America, rather than simply economic, is between those who embrace reason, who function in the real world of cause and effect, and those who, numbed by isolation and despair, now seek meaning in a mythical world of intuition, a world that is no longer reality-based, a world of magic.

Anyone who feels to much or radiates extremity gets very lonely.

No woman is an island-ess. We fall in love in hope of anchoring ourselves to someone else, to keep from falling.

There's a lot of madness in New Zealand because it's a mean and isolated little country. Anyone who feels too much or radiates extremity gets very lonely.

She hardly slept or ate, she forgot to comb her hair. The more she studied, the harder it became to speak or know anything with certainty. People were afraid of her; she forgot how to teach her classes. She became that word that people use to render difficult or driven women weightless: Gabi Teisch was "quirky.

I hate it hen people I love refuse to speak to me.

You were not alone. All that time. You were lonely

The first image he told me about was of three children on a road in Iceland, in 1965. He said that for him it was the image of happiness and also that he had tried several times to link it to other images, but it never worked. He wrote me: one day I'll have to put it all alone at the beginning of a film with a long piece of black leader; if they don't see happiness in the picture, at least they'll see the black.

I'd never really found a place in the outside world, but had stayed away too long to fit in at home.

Linda closed the door without answering. She searched the car again to ensure she hadn't missed anything before the State Police arrived. A tattered highway atlas. Three empty packs of cigarettes, a lighter, a packet of ketchup, four stale French fries, and a corpse.

METAPHOR: A tightly fitting suit of metal, generally tin, which entirely encloses the wearer, both impeding free movement and preventing emotional expression and/or social contact.

The sound of One Lung filling with water drowned out by wave after wave of a million buzzing insects an invisible chorus that only knows how to sing the last letter of the alphabet.

The sunken place, right? That's where I was. The place where nobody can touch you or hear you scream.