Quotes About Isolation

Suddenly, all at once, she knows, knows that he doesn't understand her, that he never will, that he lacks the power to understand such perverseness. And that he can never move fast enough to catch her.

He says he's lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she's lonely too. She doesn't say why.

Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save you. To be without the slightest subject for a book, the slightest idea for a book, is to find yourself, once again, before a book. A vast emptiness. A possible book. Before nothing. Before something like living, naked writing, like something terrible, terrible to overcome.

The solitude of writing is a solitude without which writing could not be produced, or would crumble, drained bloodless by the search for something else to write.

El amor es un castigo. Somos castigados por no haber podido quedarnos solos.

O-kay. Kind of freaky. I'm now standing in an actual tomb, in pitch darkness, with only a vampire to keep me company. Last week if you'd sworn on a stack of Bibles that I'd be okay with all of this, I wouldn't have believed you.

Listen,' someone whispers into my ear. 'Listen to me.' Am I dead? 'Listen,' the voice whispers. 'In some countries, you kill a monster when it's born. Other places, you kill it only when it kills someone else. Other places, you let it go, out into the forest or the sea, and it lives there forever, calling for others of its kind. Listen to me, it cries. Maybe it's just alone.

Grendel hurt, and so he hunted.

Why is she here at Herot Hall, where at any second something bad could come down the mountain, or tunnel up from below? Monsters. There's a whole world filled with monsters. They everywhere

For a moment, he felt for his old foes, fen-bound, embarking alone.

There are few things so lonely as watching while others sleep;

Queda la palabra -Yo- Para esa, por triste, por su atroz soledad, decreto la peor de las penas: vivirá conmigo hasta el final.

Who has ever heard of any ministry of education that is called upon to solve any social problem acutely felt in the country? Never has such a case occurred because the world of education is a sort of retreat where the individuals, for the whole of their scholastic life, remain isolated from the problems of the world.

The world of education is a sort of retreat where the individuals, for the whole of their scholastic life, remain isolated from the problems of the world. They prepare themselves for life by remaining outside of life.

Guess when you know no one's listening, you just stop talking.

In the winter, she lived like a mole, buried deep in her office, digging among maps and manuscripts.

La gente se vuelve rara cuando pasa demasiado tiempo sola

I couldn't be with people and I didn't want to be alone. Suddenly my perspective whooshed and I was far out in space, watching the world. I could see millions and millions of people, all slotted into their lives; then I could see me—I'd lost my place in the universe. It had closed up and there was nowhere for me to be. I was more lost than I had known it was possible for any human being to be.

Every existence is a bending in the space-time of general existence and can sometimes become so dense that it does not resonate with anything from outside.

Everyone is sick with his existence.

Ixion's not a place for friends. They die or they leave. On Ixion you need allies.

havde givet mig dyb modvilje mod mig selv: der var ikke nogen, der kunne elske mig, jeg kunne ikke få nogen til at synes om mig, jeg var kun til at smide væk, afvise. Derfor oplevede jeg alle opbrud, alle genvordigheder, al adskillelse som forstødelse. Bare jeg kom for sent til toget, begyndte tingen af røre på sig. Jeg var et mislykket menneske og derfor mislykkedes alt for mig,

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

Eu vivi muito à sombra da agonia de algumas pessoas. Hoje sou uma agoniada e ninguém me aguenta. Sou em estado de porre sem nunca ter bebido.