Quotes About Isolation

As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't actually have to talk to people and feel awkward. And of course, as we all know from fairy stories, when you achieve that ambition, you find out you don't want it.

When you feel that you aren't like everyone else or feel tainted by what has happened to you, it's hard to be optimistic about the future. In fact, for many survivors, it's nearly impossible to imagine the future at all. Many of us are caught in a state where we're still just trying to survive (our sole focus during trauma) and can't think much beyond that. Time for us is frozen and the future feels hazy at best.

The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.

People see you onstage and the glamorous side, but they don't see you traveling 600 miles a night, eating truck stop food and spending by yourself staring at walls.

I still like to think of Richey as being holed up in a Welsh valley somewhere, with a pile of books and a dog.

Ben Saunders explicaba que durante su travesía en solitario por el Polo Norte (treinta y un maratones seguidos, setenta y dos días) la «gran decisión» se le presentaba como algo tan imponente que en su día a día se limitaba a decisiones del tipo: «Llegar a aquel trozo de hielo que está a unos metros».

Remote work is not without cost or compromise. In

When a continent is poisoned by lies, truth must be an exile.

But because many of us are afraid of being hurt, we have decided to build only walls. No doors, no windows, no peep holes. Just walls.

I'm equally guilty of using technology - I Twitter, I text people, I chat. But I think there's something strangely insidious about it that it makes us think we're closer when in fact we're not seeing each other, we're not connecting.

I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.

Man, I hate to get depressing on you, but I don't have a game. I'm so alone, so depressed, so dark, no.

As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio.

The worse thing that can happen to anyone, worse than death itself, and the worst thing one can make others do, is to return from the place from which no one returns, to come back to life at the wrong time, when you are no longer expected, when it's too late and inappropriate, when the living have assumed you are over and done with and have continued or taken up their lives again, leaving no room for you at all.

las personas desdichadas se empeñan en averiguar muchas veces la magnitud de su desdicha, o en indagar vidas ajenas para abstraerse de las suyas.

Quienes actúan envueltos en niebla y de espaldas al resto, y no reclaman ni necesitan reconocimiento, esos son los que turban más el universo.

He must have pressed the wrong button, or several of them, for when the door fretted open he found himself deep underground, with no heart to try again. The corridor was dark, the air heavy with must, the rooms on both sides quiet yet stirring, as though numb people within were digging themselves out.

All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!

I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.

Like Abraham you will believe, like Sarah you will conceive, and like Moses you will rise from your isolation and exile. You will live again. God is determined to reverse your tragedy into transformation and crown your tomb with the testimony of a glorious resurrection. From

as small as a world and as large as alone For whatever we lose(like a you or a me) it's always ourselves we find in the sea

As small as a world as large as alone.

May picked up a smooth round stone, As small as a world and as large as alone.

may came home with a smooth round stone as small as a world and as large as alone. For whatever we lose(like a you or a me) it's always ourselves we find in the sea