Quotes About Isolation

It truly sucks to doubt your friends when you only have one or two of them, I realized.

Besides, the normal people here wouldn't see it. That was what "different" meant. It's just another word for lonely.

The only place their voices were left was in my head. It was better than being alone but it was so, so lonely.

Lonely people talking to each other can make each other lonelier.

Somewhere nere Ogallala, about six hours into that majestic, maddening prairie, I realize that half an hour has passed since I've seen a vehicle in either direction. Oh, I think, as I finally see a pair of headlights draw nigh in the eastbound lane, so this must be where the West begins.

Alone was not something you saw among tribes she'd studied. From an early age children were warned against it. Alone was how your soul got stolen by spirits, or your body kidnapped by enemies. Alone was when your thinking turned to evil. The culture often had proverbs against it. Not even a possum walks alone was the Tam's most repeated one.

I can tell he lost someone close somehow. You can feel that in people, an openness, or maybe it's an opening that you're talking into. With other people, people who haven't been through something like that, you feel the solid wall.

Vailala Madness

28 4/? I have done it. Full fathom five it lies. Hiding out here in the 3rd class library for the time being. Strange how a ship was our doing and now our undoing. Let him rage. Let him rage across the oceans. But he will rage alone. I am getting off tomorrow at Aden. Doubling back to Sydney. He is wine and bread and deep in my stomach.

I can tell he lost someone close somehow. You can feel that in people, an openness, or maybe it's an opening that you're talking into. With other people, people who haven't been through something like that, you feel the solid wall. Your words go scattershot off of it.

For me, other people are the point, but other people can disappear.

They'd come in '31 to study two New Guinea tribes. But because Bankson was on the Sepik River, they'd gone north, up the mountains to the Anapa, with the hope that when they came back down in a year he'd be gone and they'd have their pick of the river tribes, whose less isolated cultures were rich with artistic, economic, and spiritual traditions.

We all lose our cammin." "It's so physical. It feels like my body is rejecting me". Pg 275.

We are all in this together, by ourselves.

We're all in this alone.

Just remember, we're all in this alone.

We're all in this together alone.

If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.

Most people in our culture have been treated like objects all their lives. This is the source of the wound to the soul underlying most of the human misery that therapists encounter. Because people have come to experience themselves as objects, they in turn objectify other people and commodify the world. They feel alienated, isolated, and empty, believing their lives hold no meaning.

I tell myself I don't have time, but the truth of the matter is I don't know how to reach out.

I lacked both community and purpose.

Mike ignored me and walked off. I understood the dynamic and knew that, as close as the three of us were, I was an outsider in these circumstances. The fraternity of police officers who put their lives on the line every day for the rest of us circles the wagons pretty tightly when one of their own is harmed

No One Needs You That Much

Instead, I gradually shut down. I stopped socialising altogether. It was just too much effort. I didn't answer emails because I found I had nothing to say. Eventually I didn't even pick up the phone. I left the answer phone on as often as possible, then failed to return calls. Eventually there weren't any calls for me. I