Quotes About Isolation

Als ik niet meer zou kunnen vissen, zou ik een grote voorraad morfine aanleggen en diep het bos intrekken. Ik zou een afgelegen plek kiezen waar niemand ooit mijn lijk zou vinden en van waaruit ik een prachtig uitzicht zou hebben. Ik zou met mijn gezicht naar dat uitzicht gaan liggen - en mijn morfine nemen.

For instance, the Karimui Basin of the New Guinea highlands, where I worked in the 1960s, was occupied by an isolated population of a few thousand people, suffering from the world's highest incidence of leprosy—about 40 percent! Finally, small human populations are also susceptible to nonfatal infections against which we don't develop immunity, with the result that the same person can become reinfected after recovering. That happens with hookworm and many other parasites.

in the winter of 1902 a dysentery epidemic brought by a sailor on the whaling ship Active killed 51 out of the 56 Sadlermiut Eskimos, a very isolated band of people living on Southampton Island in the Canadian Arctic.

While Japan and Britain look at a glance similar in area and isolation, Japan is actually five times farther from the continent (110 versus 22 miles), and 50% larger in area and much more fertile.

We insist that "diversity" is a great strength, but for most Americans this is mere lip service. They rarely seek diversity in their personal lives, living instead in homogeneous islands that look nothing like the racial and cultural mix this country has become.

It made them feel, as all good books do, less alone.

I wished I could imagine my life five years later, without me in it.

Seekers are also often calm and quiet and have a natural inclination to being alone, and to working on their own. They

He spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. Friends, he'd once said, are probably great, but I have forty thousands friends of my own already, and each of them needs my attention.

If a shred of integrity fell into your soul, it would die a very lonely death.

There is a very good reason why sorcerers are all single. Love and magic are like oil and water—they just don't mix.

I don't really get the whole intellect-through-isolation thing, I said. I'm not sure anyone can claim to understand the human condition until he's talked two people out of a fight, smoothed over a best friend's marital breakup or dealt effectively with a teenager's huffy silence

Me acostaba llorando, me despertaba llorando y me pasaba el día escondiéndome de la gente, para poder llorar.

Tests do not, or at least should not collaborate; it's universally accepted that inter-test dependency is an anti-pattern.

Sometimes you feel like the only man in the city without group affiliation.

Van bizonyos szakadt méltóság a magányos bukásban.

a sad pulse beat in the darkness. The phone had rung just as the sky began

Stark was accustomed to being alone when things went wrong. For that matter, he was accustomed to being alone when things went right.

She knew enough about him to realize that no one would ever understand him unless he wished it, and that was highly unlikely. He was a man who operated alone, working by his own rules even when he was doing a job for his employers. Emily thought of him in the same way she thought of hurricanes, charging lions and marauding sharks. The only sensible thing to do when any of them was in the vicinity was to get out of the way.

Nothing evokes the end of the world more than a man running straight ahead on a beach, swathed in the sounds of his walkman . . . Primitives, when in despair, would commit suicide by swimming out to sea until they could swim no longer. The jogger commits suicide by running up and down the beach. His eyes are wild, saliva drips from his mouth. Do not stop him.

When everything is social, suddenly nothing is.

Birey, televizyondaki Sudan Ä°ç Sava??n? herhangi bir tuvalet ka??d? reklam?yla ayn? duyars?zl?kla izlemektedir. Televizyonu kapatt?ktan sonra, Sudan'da ki iç savaÅŸ devam etse bile, onun için bitmiÅŸtir.

These old Australians or Californians who spend all their days staring at the ocean without leaving their limousines, which they have turned into their panoramic childhood sites and their coffins, and who dream there, while awaiting the last wave, the one that will come from the depths of the ocean to engulf them.

One knows that the social can be dissolved in a panic reaction, an uncontrollable chain reaction. But it can also be dissolved in the opposite reaction, a chain reaction of inertia, each micro-universe saturated, auto-regulated, computerized, isolated in automatic pilot. Advertising is the prefiguration of this: the first manifestation of an uninterrupted thread of signs, like ticker tape—each isolated in its inertia.