Quotes About Isolation

Everyone and everything oppresses me, chokes and maddens me; I am troubled by a crushing physical sense of other people's lack of comprehension.

Is that my ears ringing, or am I screaming? I am burning and I am blind and I can't find the stairs and I do not know how to get out of Madham.

What have we done?' he asked, but there was no one to answer him.

lonely and isolated people who feel their solitude more intensely within the busy life of the streets. They are what George Gissing called the anchorites of daily life, who return unhappy to their solitary rooms.

Parliamentary prisoners were often sent to Coventry under armed guard; hence the familiar expression.

Remember, this is the country of the duck-billed platypus. When you are cut off from the rest of the world, things are bound to develop in interesting ways.

I knew I had been lonely, Mem, yet I had no understanding of my desolation until my skin was finally touched.

Some time later, I sat in the wine cellar, staring at the walls while cradling a wineskin in my lap like a child, murmuring over and over as if lulling the child to sleep, 'I am shat upon. I am shat upon'.

My name is Tragic Solitude 000. I am the Keeper of the Ark.

People are not being reached in the context of the body of Christ--they're like newborn babies being left on a doorstep somewhere to feed and care for themselves.

The true, the universal meaning is that human existence is possible, only possible, in faith. In faith, the individual becomes the universal, ceases to be isolated, becomes meaningful and absolute; hence in faith there is a true ethic. And in faith existence in society becomes meaningful too as existence in true charity.

the window for hours. He wouldn't talk to anyone. The players whispered that Joe and his first wife, Dorothy, had been dating, trying to get back together

Religia îmi era de mult nesuferit?, cu toate acestea, am simÈ›it dintr-odat? dorinÈ›a de a m? raporta la ceva. Era insuportabil s? fii singur È™i izolat. Trebuia s? existe o relaÈ›ie cu altcineva, care s? nu fie doar personal?, întâmpl?toare È™i unic?, în care s? nu fii constrâns s? aparÈ›ii celuilalt printr-o dragoste forÈ›at? È™i mincinoas?, ci printr-o leg?tur? necesar?, impersonal?.

En otras ocasiones ella hacía con sus relatos planes para el futuro: <>. Ahora callaba. Intentó conmoverla con recuerdos comunes, pero tampoco respondió a ellos. Las antiguas bromas, que siempre la hacían reír, la dejaron impertérrita. ¡No quería seguir los juegos tácitamente acordados!

Nepakeliama b?ti su kuo nors susipykus. Staiga tas kitas tampa bevardžiu, kažkokiu dariniu, jo veidas pasitraukia ? šeš?l?, pasidaro neryškus, iškreiptas, ir mes tegalime ? j? skubotai žvilgtel?ti, iš apa?ios, tarsi pel?. ?sigij? prieš?, mes imame bjaur?tis patys savimi. Ir vis tiek visada tur?jome prieš?.

Ein Schriftsteller oder überhaupt jemand, der mit dem Alleinsein fertig geworden wäre, würde mich nicht mehr interessieren

Porque no sé dónde estoy, porque he olvidado que estoy en la habitación y espero que me llamen a comer, porque me he olvidado de mí mismo, porque ya no me llega nada desde fuera que me indique dónde se encuentra mi cuerpo y porque ningún ruido me retiene, los pensamientos me llevan de aquí para allá en tierra de nadie; no son pensamientos elaborados por mí, sino pensamientos que surgen en mí.

appetite for loneliness impressed me, and there was something about this solitude that freed conversation.

It hardly ever attaches to any other sin except one, and is never heard from any organized group of people except one.

Cass, Aly, and Marco were trapped in an invisible cage. And I was on the outside.

We were family," Cass said softly. "We were all we had. And now we have nothing.

I DO NOT hear them, but I know they are near. The creatures. The men. They hunt me through the rocks and jungle trees. I must move, but I cannot. I fear my ankle is broken. If I stay, they will flush me out of this hiding place. When they are through with Father, they will come for me. I pray they spare him. It is I whom they seek.

I was overtaken by a dread of utter solitude in the great turning world.

although I seldom knew what the date was. It didn't seem important. I was turning into a contented vegetable, maintaining sporadic contact with real life through telephone conversations with people in faraway offices.