Quotes About Isolation

I do not know what I would do to my unfamily if they pushed me away again. I am no safe thing now. A child no more, but a fully grown monster, like the ones that came for me.

For me, who has been so much alone, it feels like drowning in a deluge of sights and sounds and smells.

Sometimes it seemed as though all her life was already used up in that dark basement, as if her mother's mouth on Tana's arm was the last thing in her life before this that had felt real. Everything else was just prologue and epilogue.

Hell is oneself, Hell is alone. —T. S. ELIOT

humans live much longer in captivity than they do in the wild.

I have stood apart from the world for so long. That has made it hard for me to navigate being in it, but it has also made me an excellent observer.

Que la muerte sea tu única compañera.

The downside of letting everyone know you're going to be all alone so they can attack you is that everyone knows you'll be all alone so they can attack you.

The loneliest days are the ones where you keep company with someone you love who can't hear you.

We cannot confront solitude without moral resources.

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.

La solitude est une belle chose; mais il faut quelqu'un pour vous dire que la solitude est une belle chose.

He looked like some plant bleached by darkness.

She was white like the sands, tawny like the sands, solitary and burning like the sands.

The region is a desert of stones, a solitude with a character of its own, an arid spot, which could only be inhabited by beings who had either attained to absolute nullity, or were gifted with some abnormal strength of soul.

Lontano dal centro dove brillano le grandi intelligenze, dove l'aria è carica di pensieri, dove tutto si rinnova, l'istruzione invecchia, il gusto si snatura come acqua stagnante. Per mancanza di esercizio, le passioni si rattrappiscono ingigantendo cose di nessuna importanza. Ecco perché l'avarizia e il pettegolezzo appestano la vita di provincia.

What must the rest of the world be like when one of the kindest of women forgets all her promises of befriending me in a moment, and tosses me aside like an old shoe? So it is every one for himself?

He had never dined with a duchess, never received a prize, never been interviewed, never produced anything which the public could understand, nor experienced anything since his schoolboy amours which nice people could regard as romantic. He was, in fact, an authentic scientist.

Since the days of old, the wise and the good Have been left alone in their solitude, While merry drinkers have achieved enviable fame.

I miss the days when I was alone with my characters and no one else knew them except me.

I lost interest in the condition of humans, but I never lost interest in the human condition.

Watching someone have a panic attack was like looking in the eyes of someone trapped behind glass, drowning right in front of you.

She accumulates stuff to insulate herself from the world,