Quotes About Isolation

I believe our recognition of reality's complex dimensions is a consequence of our solitude.

A silent dark...as black as a moonless lake, as a ravine's wings, darkness there and nothing more, merely this and nothing more...

All this is just a place, she said. And sometimes such a lonely one.

He, too, had been glassed-in for a long time, by choice. Now and then he had lifted a hammer to shatter through to something, but he had never struck the blow because he didn't know what he wanted on the other side of the glass.

Richard Parker has stayed with me. I've never forgotten him. Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart. I still cannot understand how he could abandon me so unceremoniously, without any sort of goodbye, without looking back even once. That pain is like an axe that chops at my heart.

Except that now, for having accused Ravi of an unspecified crime he hadn't committed, I was as good as dead. In years subsequent, when he was in the mood to terrorize me, he would whisper to me, Just wait till we're alone. You're the next goat!

hole. The temperature climbed.

Solitude is long. The joys that connect us leave almost no trace.

The illumination that came from the ceiling made everything gloomy and gave me the feeling of having been forgotten by the world.

I accept that I've lost the game of life in the same way that one loses at solitaire.

Her manner was as though she were talking of a distant foreign literature. There was something lonely, something sad in it, something that rather suggested a beggar who has lost all desire.

A voice so beautiful it was almost lonely, calling out as if to someone who could not hear, on ship far away.

For such a tiny death, the empty eight-mat room seemed enormous.

One can't stop and suddenly speak to a complete stranger, can one?......When it happens I could die of sadness. I feel somehow empty and drained....

THE TRAIN came out of the long tunnel into the snow country.

When you're held by the dead, you begin to feel that you aren't in this world yourself.

Cum o fi oare sentimentul de singur?tate la animale?

Animalele nu sunt lipsite de sentimente… Dac? n-aÈ™ avea lâng? mine ceva viu, care s? se miÈ™te, n-aÈ™ putea suporta singur?tatea.

It would be odd to explain, now that he had come to the house, that for an old man who was no longer a man, to keep company with a girl who had been put to sleep was "not a human relationship.

Y si uno se siente demasiado solo incluso para suicidarse?

You think I'm drunk and talking nonsense? I'm not. I would know she was being well taken care of, and I could go pleasantly to seed here in the mountains. It would be a fine, quiet feeling.

He went to the house, he said, when the despair of old age was too much for him.

Sometimes I come crashing down inside myself without anyone noticing.

Out of three or four in a room One is always standing at the window Hair dark above his thoughts Behind him the words And in front of him the words, wandering without luggage Hearts without provision, prophecies without water, And big stones put there And stayed, closed, like letters, With no adresses; and no one to receive them.