Quotes About Isolation

Mercifully, I was at that age when reading was still a passion and thus, save for a happy marriage, the best state possible in which to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

Would he ever, he wondered, escape from people who banged on the doors he locked to demand his egress?

can go for weeks without hearin' the sound of a human voice. And I love it, Melody. I love it. I don't need people the way you do. Hell, I don't even like most people.

I can go for weeks without hearin' the sound of a human voice. And I love it, Melody. I love it. I don't need people the way you do. Hell, I don't even like most people.

saying something in German, then at the mountain man's

Fur trade's damn near gone; pilgrims pourin' in over the trails me and all the others opened up. Hate to see it. Why, I seen five white people just last month. Five! Gettin' so's a body can't even be alone no more.

When from our better selves we have too long Been parted by the hurrying world, and droop, Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, How gracious, how benign, is Solitude

I couldn't understand these town people. If they weren't staring at a fellow, they were laughing at him.

If they weren't staring at a fellow, they were laughing at him.

A vida é a mesma coisa que se ficar num hospício de loucos, pensei. Cada um vai circulando, imerso e afogado em suas próprias desilusões, sem que ninguém veja. A pessoa vai abrindo caminhos pelas celas, passando por entre os companheiros atormentados, rumo àquele que parece o único mentalmente são. Era exatamente o que eu estava fazendo agora.

All the adult family was present except Beth, Paul's wife, who was sharing Keren's lonely vigil in the cottage over the hill. Despised by Keren in life, Beth could yet not bear the thought of allowing her to lie untended all through the summer evening.

She pushed the bolt across the door and sat abruptly in the first chair. Her romance was over; even though she rebelled against the fact, she knew that it was so. She felt faint and sick and desperately tired of being alive. If death could come quietly and peacefully she would accept it, would sink into it as one sank into a bed wanting only sleep and self-forgetfulness.

An iron curtain is drawn down upon their front. We do not know what is going on behind.

Sinn Fein,' 'Ourselves alone

En el Pacífico, había solo cinco estaciones inalámbricas alemanas: Yap, Apia, Nauru, Rabaul y Anguar; estas estaciones fueron destruidas antes de dos meses, a contar desde el principio de la contienda. Después de esto, solo quedaron las estaciones de T. S. H. de a bordo, con las que era muy peligroso lanzar una sola palabra en el espacio.

I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet-hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed.

within the four walls of avalanches, I call out to Yeti. Stomping my feet for warmth on the snow the snow eternal.

In these lands you're a name to avoid, you're bound for defeat, you're a sign pointing out those who must be destroyed.   At

The world was indeed a kind of screen and did not manifest itself other than by passing me on and on—I was just the bouncing ball that objects played with!

Sonuna kadar insan olmayanlar?n sonuna kadar dünya olmayan dünyas?n? bir ân bile unutam?yordum -ve panikle korka korka, acayip iÄŸrene iÄŸrene, onun batakl?k yeÅŸilini sadece gözümde canland?rd???mda bile ürpere ürpere yine de ondan kopmay? beceremiyordum; mini mini bir kuÅŸun y?lan?n görüntüsüyle büyülenmesi gibi büyülenmiÅŸtim.

Gdybym z ziemi robi? wycieczk? na jak? inn? planet?, lub cho?by na ksi??yc, te? wola?bym by? z kim? - na wszelki wypadek, ?eby moja ludzko?? mia?a si? w czym przejrze?.

Samotno?? jest wypychaj?ca. Wi?c po d?u?szej m?ce znowu otworzy?em drzwi, ukaza?em si? na progu, z samotno?ci troch? na o?lep jak nietoperz.

Witold Gombrowicz

The emptiness of our boredom met with the emptiness of these supposed signs.