Quotes About Isolation

I was left alone but actually not alone—how could I be alone when I wasn't even there, I had no sense of being there, and not a single thought, gesture, action, or word, in fact nothing seemed to be mine, but rather it was as if it had all been settled somewhere outside myself, decided for me—because in reality I was quite different!

Wir sind die Generation ohne Bindung und ohne Tiefe. Unsere Tiefe ist der Abgrund.

Ich möchte Leuchtturm sein in Nacht und Wind – für Dorsch und Stint, für jedes Boot – und ich bin doch selbst ein Schiff in Not!

Schrei nicht los, wenn du eine halbe Stunde im Nebel stehst, nachts,einsam. Du triffst immer wieder auf die andern. Komm, Junge, werd nicht müde! Hör nicht hin auf die sentimentale Klimperei des süßen Xylophonspielers, hör nicht hin.

Muerte (Una comedia) KLEINMAN: ¡Oh, no, no pienso quedarme aquí solo! ¡Estás de broma! ¡Hay un loco suelto por ahí! ¡Yo no me entiendo bien con los locos! Soy un individuo muy lógico. AL: El plan no permite que estemos juntos. KLEINMAN: Mira, no hagamos de esto un idilio. No tenemos que estar juntos nosotros. Con doce hombres fuertes cualesquiera me conformo.

I always took to anything that required solitude...it kept me from having to deal with other humans who, for no explainable reason, I didn't like nor trust.

We are adrift alone in the cosmos wreaking monstrous violence on one another out of frustration and pain.

Thaddeus was the one she locked in the outdoor shed overnight. Is it surprising he committed suicide with a gun ten minutes from his mother's house?

A world I will never feel comfortable in, never understand, and never approve of or forgive.

WaÅ'Ä™samy siÄ™ samotnie po kosmosie i z rozczarowania i z bólu zadajemy sobie nawzajem gwaÅ't.

I would go with you through the fires of death. Yet am happiest alone.

Al principio trataba de jugar con los otros, pero uno acepta cierto número de rechazos, hasta que se convierte en un solitario arrogante, de modo que parezca que se alejó primero.

Separated from Hellas by more than a thousand miles, they had not even a guide to point the way.

I always feel myself being thrust back into loneliness when someone tells me it's cold on a hot day. It isn't good to talk so much about the weather — weather is a highly personal matter, and communication on the subject inevitably fails.

Mold started to grow in my ears because no one ever spoke to me

Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn't be more simple, nor the stakes higher.

I wept like a child. It was not because I was overcome at having survived my ordeal, though I was. Nor was it the presence of my brothers and sisters, though that too was very moving. I was weeping because ....fill in the blank with whatever/whoever helped you survive... had left me so unceremoniously.

Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression.

Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life.

I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island.

Come aboard if your destination is oblivion- it should be our next stop. We can sit together. You can have the window seat if you want. But it's a sad view.

In my experience, a castaway's worst mistake is to hope too much and to do too little.

Japanese-owned cargo ship Tsimtsum, flying Panamanian flag, sank July 2nd, 1977, in Pacific, four days out of Manila. Am in lifeboat. Pi Patel my name. Have some food, some water, but Bengal tiger a serious problem. Please advise family in Winnepeg, Canada. Any help very much appreciated. Thank you.

Then Richard Parker, companion of my torment, awful, fierce thing that kept me alive, moved forward and disappeared forever from my life.