Quotes About Isolation

Things change after you die, though, I guess because dying is the loneliest thing you can do.

I used to be afraid of two things - being alone and not being able to write. Since Albert's death, I don't care about writing or about other people.

People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.

There is a place on earth that is a vast desolate wilderness, a place populated by shadows of the dead in their multitudes, a place where the living are dead, where only death, hate and pain exist.

After my father's death, nothing could touch me any more.

I have been alone since my husband died. I stay in my home. I don't date. It's hard to date when you're at home. Nobody knows you.

The Emperor died forsaken by all, on this horrible rock. (St. Helena) His death struggle was awful!

My flesh winced, in cowardice, from such a death.

No man kills himself unless there is something wrong with his life.

Death and worse happened on the plains.

Suicide is very contagious.

Homeless, wifeless, mistressless, penniless . . . jump in the cold river and drown.

You know what's at the heart of the misery of a breakdown? Me-itis. Microcosmosis. Drowning in the tiny tub of yourself

Wifeless, mistressless, penniless, vocationless, homeless . . . and now, to top things off, on the run.

Sylvia Levov stoically and impatiently endured him, her only successful form of resistance being to freeze him out and live with the isolation—and see more of herself evaporating year by year.

In my own house my voice don't carry from the kitchen to the toilet.

The worst of being unbearably alone was that you had to bear it—either that or you were sunk.

the love thrust upon the Swede seemed actually to deprive him of feeling.

The immensity of your isolation is horrifying

I don't think you ever gave isolation a real shot. It's the best preparation I know of for death.

an aging man imprisoned on Goli Otok as an enemy of the regime

The fact that Jesus came to earth where he suffered and died does not remove pain from our lives. But it does show that God did not sit idly by and watch us suffer in isolation. He became one of us. Thus, in Jesus, God gives us an up-close and personal look at his response to human suffering. All our questions about God and suffering should, in fact, be filtered through what we know about Jesus.

On the other hand, if the subject had nothing to do but think about his pain (as is true in many hospitals and nursing homes), he showed much greater sensitivity.

I relish the sense of being alone with nature, knowing that of all people in the world only I am hearing these sounds in this place. The tranquil mood feels vaguely religious, what I should be feeling in church but rarely do. In