Quotes About Isolation

When a Parisian drops into the country he is cut off from all his usual habits, and soon feels the dragging hours, no matter how attentive his friends may be to him. Therefore, because it is so impossible to prolong in a tete-a-tete conversations that are soon exhausted, the master and mistress of a country-house are apt to say, calmly, "You will be terribly bored here.

Je suis venu me réfugier ici au fond d'un château, comme dans un monastère.

What do you do, gentlemen, when you place a man in solitude? You isolate him.

If you pay court to a young girl whose existence is a compound of loneliness, despair, and poverty, and who has no suspicion that she will come into a fortune, good Lord! it is quint and quatorze at piquet;

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

Me pareció más pálida aún. Se miraron fijamente, insistentemente, aislados del mundo en aquella recta paralela de alma a alma que los mantenía inmóviles

bien: basta que dos personas sorban los deleites de la vida de un modo anormal, para que se comprendan tanto más íntimamente, cuanto más extraña es la obtención del goce. Se unirán en seguida, excluyendo toda otra pasión, para aislarse en la dicha alucinada de un paraíso artificial.

Se miraron fijamente, insistentemente, aislados del mundo en aquella recta paralela de alma a alma que los mantenía inmóviles.

Basta que dos personas sorban los deleites de la vida de un modo anormal, para que se comprendan tanto más íntimamente, cuanto más extraña es la obtención del goce. Se unirán en seguida, excluyendo toda otra pasión, para aislarse en la dicha alusinada de un paraíso artificial.

Se miraron fijamente, insistentemente, aislados del mundo en aquella recta paralela de alma a alma que los mantenía inmóviles".

I only needed one person at my side... one was enough... even if the rest of the world turned its back on me.

When a man was alone too much, he had only himself to look into, and what he found there was all manner of darkness.

Lonesomeness, on the other hand, did not depend on circumstance. It was bolted in the heart and seized on a man's weakness, a vise that squeezed all possibility out of time, that crushed hope and rendered meaningless anything tomorrow could offer.

We can share hope with others. It's a powerful pillar in my life. In other words: Hope is not merely one person's dream in isolation. From the very beginning of human life on earth, hope has been a currency we can give and receive.

my earliest memories of the snow are unhappy ones. I stepped into a snow drift that was so deep I sank in up to my waist and couldn't get out.

I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback.

I could use the company but I can't go through the pain of getting it.

T. S. Eliot told Auden tht the reason he played patience night after night was that it was the nearest thing to being dead.

Henry believes he knows exactly when the ninety-four-year-old woman in the neighbouring apartment dies. He hears her turn off. Until now he has not been able to distinguish her from her appliances – her washing machine, her vacuum cleaner, her radiators, her television. But the moment she gives up the ghost he detects the cessation of a noise of which he was not previously aware. A hum, was it? A whirr? Impossible to say. There is no word for the sound a life makes.

The result of this is a disrespect for the world in general and a foreignness to anything around him that isn't immediately recognizable to his everyday habits. He has even begun to lose perspective on what his own assets and faults are, because he has nothing to measure these things against.

Gregor Samsa awoke one morning to find himself turned into an enormous symbol.

Look at the Sad Lonely People Who Didn't Join a Book Group,

So fuck off to fuck-off land and leave me alone.

For the next several miles our trail winds through dramatically lush growth, so vigorous that the trail is completely covered... And, as you physically penetrate this living wall it occurs to you just how far civilization is being left behind.