Quotes About Isolation

Winter thinks the mountains are going to eat him,

Were you raised under a mountain?

No way," Glory said. "A tree in the forest?

visiting merchant RainWings or MudWings were sequestered from the NightWings instead of being invited to their parties and festivals.

They needed to be STUFFED INTO IGLOOS until they came to their senses.

You're right," Qibli said to her. "Underneath the brainwashing genocidal murderer is a very lonely brainwashing genocidal murderer.

Perhaps that's one downside to staying isolated, Starflight thought. They keep themselves separate to seem more powerful, and yet they're cut off from so much potential knowledge.

To lead you far astray into the marshy swamp," Zoe said in a spooky voice, "where you will be lost forever.

felt like heading off the edge of the world. For most of the trip, we couldn't see any land in any direction — maybe an island in the distance,

Deathbringer had found his night vision growing stronger the longer he was away from the Night Kingdom.

Underneath the brainwashing genocidal murderer is a very lonely brainwashing genocidal murderer.

The Bush Doctrine is democratic imperialism. This will bleed, bankrupt and isolate this republic. This overthrows the wisdom of the Founding Fathers about what America should be all about.

Clare offered a half-hearted suggestion. "Well, there are coaches I know who do one-on-one counseling." Bobby shook his head. "No, that doesn't usually work. It takes months and only isolates people. It seems like most of them just use it to prepare for their next job.

How has it come to this? Where once my life was populated with the living, now I seem to keep company only with ghosts and ghouls and the like.

Nobody touches you after seventy except doctors, as a rule. A sister, if you're lucky enough to have one. Undertakers.

And think of our poor doctor, all alone among them damned trees – why, there might be owls.

nunc et in hora mortis nostrae,' he repeated yet again, and felt the lap of water on his foot. He looked up. The people had gone; the pyre was no more than a dark patch with the sea hissing in its embers; and he was alone. The tide was rising fast.

It occurred to him that she had spent these last few years entirely among men, seeing no women apart from a few like Louisa Wogan; she spoke rather as men, and somewhat raffish, moneyed, loose-living men, speak when they are alone together. 'She has forgotten the distinction between what can and what cannot be said,' he reflected. 'A few more years of this company, and she would not scruple to fart.

And now it was no longer a matter of people wilfully moving his electric torch, attempting to steal his drawing-pins, hiding his valuable rubber, malignantly dusting his mounds: now it was with a far deeper conviction, indeed with real distress, that he could say, "I should not wish my fame on to anyone, not even my worst enemy … it makes me physically ill … I protect myself as well as I can … I am barricaded behind double-locked doors day and night.

On and on she sailed, in warmer seas but void, as though they alone had survived Deucalion's flood; as though all land had vanished from the earth; and once again the ship's routine dislocated time and temporal reality so that this progress was an endless dream, even a circular dream, contained within an unbroken horizon and punctuated only by the sound of guns thundering daily in preparation for an enemy whose real existence it was impossible to conceive.

Surely man in general is born to be oppressed or solitary, if he is to be fully human;

Nobody, anywhere, has any real sense what is actually going on. This doesn't seem to get a very good reaction from the crowd - no doubt I'm scowling as I say it, but still. I continue: I don't either, but at least I know I don't. I'm sorry but you people aren't like me. This is me trying to take the edge off. Being friendly. You haven't done the shit I've done.

There's nothing so inhuman as a human being.

In psychopaths' mental world people do not exist except as objects, targets, and obstacles.