Quotes About Isolation

Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come.

imagine a world without people

A man travelling on a train - like you or I - to Scotland, had two or two bad eggs in his pocket - and you know - no one would sit by him.

For without some sense of the past the future can be only loneliness: amnesia is a solitary affliction.

The other Andamanese languages have no known relatives. They have five numbers: one, two, one more, some more, and all. On

Corpses were wrapped in sheets, pushed into corners, left there sometimes for days, the horror of it sinking in deeper each hour, people too sick to cook for themselves, too sick to clean themselves, too sick to move the corpse off the bed, lying alive on the same bed with the corpse. The dead lay there for days, while the living lived with them, were horrified by them, and, perhaps most horribly, became accustomed to them.

Monument and Ignacio, Colorado, went further than banning all public gatherings. They banned customers from stores; the stores remained open, but customers shouted orders through doors, then waited outside for packages.

They try to order chaos not in the way an artist or scientist does, through a defining vision that creates structure and discipline, but by closing off and isolating themselves from that which does not fit. They become bureaucratic.

Other recommendations are generally simple and obvious: for example, keeping sick children home from school—which is standard behavior—and having sick adults stay home from work—which is not standard behavior

In 1881 he became the first to isolate the pneumococcus, a few weeks before Pasteur and Koch. (None of the three recognized the bacteria's full importance.) Sternberg also first observed that white blood cells engulfed bacteria, a key to understanding the immune system.

Clifford Adams recalled, "They stopped people from communicating, from going to churches, closed the schools, . . . closed all the saloons. . . . Everything was quiet.

They knew so little. So little. They knew only that isolation worked. The New York State Training School for Girls had quarantined itself, even requiring people delivering supplies to leave them outside. It had had no cases.

They cannot operate efficiently in a vacuum.

Educated folk keep to one another's company too much, leaving other people much like milk skimmed of its cream.

As I stepped to the stage to pick up my degree, and the locusts sang off in the distance.

I get homesick a lot. That can make me so emotional that I sometimes feel like crying- but never in front of anyone. No way!

LA is an intense city. I was probably a bit too sensitive. I didn't have any friends so I was keeping pretty low key. I just whipped myself up into a bit of an emotional frenzy.

A Dark Night is a mental and emotional state of despair that arises when something is so painful that it blots out all other considerations and makes carrying on as usual out of the question.

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

I didn't have friends. No one talked to me. I used to go to the Wyndcroft School (nationally recognized for academic excellence) in Pottstown, and when I moved to Wyomissing, I didn't know anybody.

There are people who cannot risk loneliness with the experience. They always have to be in a flock and have human contact.

My childhood was extremely lonely. I was dyslexic and lots of kids make fun of me. That experience made me tough inside, because you learn to quietly accept ridicule.

Everyone should just drive out to the Mojave Desert and just experience it, and it's a fun place to live.

I think it's easy for people to assume that fame is equal to glory, but it can be a very isolating experience.