Quotes About Isolation

Within the space of six months, she had been widowed and orphaned and had lost her standing as queen of France.

I think fear keeps people in mundane lives. Fear of freedom, fear of loneliness; it's a powerful opium.

is like a leaden blanket of darkness—darkness and fear, because you are possessed by dread: a universal dread that clamps like a limpet onto every passing thought. In the depths of an attack, I wake each morning feeling as if I have committed a capital crime and been sentenced to hang. The overwhelming temptation is to seek oblivion, and at the worst, the thought of the ultimate oblivion is always with you.

a trance of desolation

Take me away, and in the lowest deep There let me be...

And then he could bring up the sail and let the prevailing winds carry him back to shore, thus making a living entirely on his own, almost without ever having to see or speak to another human ever in his life, which I am convinced is the secret dream of every person in Maine.

I told them good night and returned to my room, less lonely and warmed by the brief contact with others like me who felt the need to be reassured that an eye could show something besides suspicion or hate

I remained in my room more and more each day. The situation in Montgomery was so strange I decided to try passing back into white society.

Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.

Lilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note. 'Sorry,' said the note. 'Just not big enough.

There are always suicides, Garp wrote, among people who are unable to say what they mean.

It is simply amazing, at that age, when you're thirteen or fourteen, how you can take being loved for granted, how (even when you are wanted) you can feel utterly alone.

And you wouldn't want to bring her home—at least not to entertain your guests or amuse the children. No, Juan Diego thought—you would want to keep her, all for yourself.

The older they got, the more they needed; and the less anyone wanted or loved them.

Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.

Melville's Moby-Dick—

Sempre há suicídios entre as pessoas que não conseguem dizer o que querem

There are always suicides," Garp wrote, "among people who are unable to say what they mean.

Works of art are of an infinite loneliness," Rilke had written.

Er Schrieb an Helen, dass Jungsein zum Teil auch aus dem Gefühl besteht, dass es niemanden gibt, der dir genug ähnelt um dich zu verstehen

But I tried to feel I was part of the demonstration; sadly, I didn't feel I was a part of it—I didn't feel I was part of anything. I had a 4-F deferment; I would never have to go to war, or to Canada. By the simple act of removing the first two joints of my right index finger, Owen Meany had enabled me to feel completely detached from my generation.

With our mothers, we are always alone

The temptation to touch each other, even to bash their shopping carts together, was removed from them, and they all settled into being the kind of friends many old friends become: that is, they were friends when they heard from each other – or when, occasionally, they got together. And when they were not in touch, they did not think of one another.

There was life in outer space, but you didn't want to get it on you.