Quotes About Isolation

Piu' giu di cosi' non si puo' andare: condizione umana piu' misera non c'e', e non e' pensabile. Nulla piu' e' nostro: ci hanno tolto gli abiti, le scarpe, anche i capelli; se parleremo non ci ascolteranno, se ci ascoltassero non ci capirebbero. Ci toglieranno anche il nome: e se vorremmo conservarlo, dovremmo trovare in noi la forza di farlo, di fare si' che dietro al nome, qualcosa ancora di noi, di quelli che eravamo, rimanga.

poi scese una notte totale, atrocemente gelida, senza luci in cielo né in terra.

a strange coldness had settled upon Achamian, the monolithic selfishness of which only children and madmen are sometimes capable.

when the world denies us over and over, when it punishes us as it's punished you, Serwë, it becomes difficult to understand the meaning. All our pleas go unanswered. Our every trust is betrayed. Our hopes are all crushed. It seems we mean nothing to the world. And when we think we mean nothing, we begin to think we are nothing.

few things are more familiar, he supposed, than finding oneself a stranger.

And now, when he needed a brother more than at any time in his life, he was not even sure he possessed a friend.

Achamian had felt more than faintly alienated by this talk, as so often happened when confronted by another's excessive enthusiasm.

She led a submerged life, a life catacombed by poverty and ignorance

Don't get ahead of the story,lad. You see, it's a very long story- because Danny Lubbins was at sea on that tiny slip of a plank raft... for three hundred days.

HOUSE OF MIRRORS. REFLECT BEFORE YOU ENTER. NO ONE MAY EVER SEE YOU AGAIN!

dimmed completely.

It's so dark, I thought, studying it from the street. The whole house was covered in darkness, as if it were hiding in the shadows of the gnarled, old trees that bent over it.

Maybe I should, I don't know leave? Because this is starting to sound like one of those reality shows I don't want to be in. Maybe you guys want to take turns in the confessional booth.

There is two feet of space between us, and about a mile of separation.

Planet Shane is a lovely place a long way from here.

I don't matter here, Shane. I feel like I just don't matter. Stupid, right? No, he said. He sounded so gentle it broke her heart. It's how most people feel most of the time, Claire. You've grown up being special, and this is how most people live their lives...on their own, unnoticed. And they get used to that feeling. It's just new for you.

The Morganville in her wanted to tell people to go home and be safe, but she knew that was verging on crazy. The world these laughing people lived in was a very different place. She was in a very different place.

We can be lonely together

You've grown up being special, and this is how most people live their lives...alone. On their own. Undecided. And they get used to that feeling. It's just new for you.

You may live in your small, dark corner and light a candle and pretend it is the sun; in time, you might even believe it. I certainly cannot stop you. But I will mourn for those you drag into the darkness along with you.

He and his mother weren't close and never had been, really. In this, as in so much else in his life, Jess was alone

Stripping away the humanity because that is the only way I can save myself and still watch this unrelenting horror.

You never understand how vulnerable you are in this age of social media until something breaks against you, and then . . . then it's too late. You can shut down Facebook, Twitter, Instagram; you can change your phone number and your e-mail. Move to new places. But for dedicated tormentors, that isn't a barrier.

She'd never really been afraid of the dark, but dark wasn't really dark most of the time.... There were stars, moonlight, distant streetlights. This was pitch-black, take-no-prisoners dark, and she had the ice-cold feeling that anything could be right next to her, reaching out for her, and she'd never see it coming.