Quotes About Isolation

It was his foreignness, inability to make himself accepted, essential loserness, that made him look away.

She knew: shit, we might as well have been drinking a dog's tears. Nothing mattered except that we were alive.

Will you believe me when I tell you there was kindness in his heart? His left hand didn't know what his right hand was doing. It was only that certain important connections had been burned through. If I opened up your head and ran a hot soldering iron around in your brain, I might turn you into someone like that.

I don't remember what I said to them. I remember loneliness crushing first my lungs. Then my heart. Then my balls.

If he died now, Grainier probably wouldn't know it until they came into the light of the gas lamps either side of the doctor's house. After they'd moved along for nearly an hour without conversation, listening only to the creaking wagon and the sound of the nearby river and the clop of the mares, it grew dark.

Skip experienced no excitement. Only the lethargy and sadness of a man freezing to death.

It's my last year in the navy, he explained to the girl. I came across this ocean and died. They might as well bring back my bones. I'm all different.

It was a long straight road through dry fields as far as a person could see. You'd think the sky didn't have any air in it, and the earth was made of paper. Rather than moving, we were just getting smaller and smaller.

We hadn't yet mentioned our names. We probably wouldn't. In barrooms I lived this over and over.

January is the despairing heart of the Scottish winter

It was Lord of the Flies without table manners.

You don't have a partner, Marshal, You came here alone.

My father's gone, Joe said eventually. Emma's dead. Your brother's dead. My brothers scattered. Shit, D, you're one of the only people I know anymore. I lose you, who the fuck am I?

The loneliness of another can be shocking when it lays itself bare without warning.

We all die alone...... I could have helped her with the dying.

all he wanted was to not be alone, but he knew there was no getting rescued from that

You've mislaid your trust in the past, had your faith in people broken, shattered even. You've been betrayed. Lied to. So you've chosen not to trust. And this protects you to some extent, I'm sure. But it also isolates you from the rest of humanity. You are disconnected. You are displaced. And the only way to find your way back to a place, to a connection, is to trust again.

I don't have room in my heart for most people. Got nothing against them, but I got nothing for them, either.

I'm alone," Angie had told me a month ago. "No, you're not." "You're not alone," I said, my arms wrapped around her from behind. "Yes, I am. And all your holding and all your love can't change that right now.

Being alone, you see, is the worst of hell's punishments.

È un'isola, capo. Ci troveranno sempre.

I got divorced today," she said. "I lost my job—no, correct that, my career—six months ago, as you well know, because I had a panic attack on the air. I've grown terrified of people, not particular people, but in general, which is worse. I've spent the last few months a virtual shut-in. And honestly? I can't wait to get back to it. Brian, there's nothing I like about myself.

of the invasion forces who were to be sealed into them and no longer allowed to communicate with the outside world once they had been briefed in the parts they were to play.

There are a few people who tell me that they are so used to a solitary life that they will die alone, but even here I advise them that if they are thinking of self-deliverance the chances of the action not being botched are much better if a friend is present.