Quotes About Isolation

I am a monster, I realised, a monster that wants to stalk through the woods, free and alone, and cannot even bear so much as the touch of a branch on its skin. There'd be nothing wrong with that, if it weren't for the fact that every so often the monster wants to be loved and cosseted and has to grovel, whining, back to the world of men.

Since I've been living in the forest I don't notice myself getting older. There's nobody there to draw my attention to it, after all. Nobody tells me how I look, and I never give it a thought myself.

Ich glaube, der alte Ferdinand las so viel, damit er nicht mit seiner Frau reden mußte. Immerhin hatten Männer damals noch soviel Autorität, daß niemand ihr Studierzimmer zu betreten wagte. Auf diese Weise wurde mein lieber Schwiegervater ein Gelehrter.

Suddenly I had a flash of insight: I am a monster, I realized, a monster that wants to stalk through the woods, free and alone, and cannot even bear so much as the touch of a branch on its skin.

I've taken on this task to keep me from staring into the gloom and being frightened. For I am frightened. Fear creeps up on me from all sides, and I don't want to wait until it gets to me and overpowers me. I shall write until darkness falls, and this new, unfamiliar work should make my mind tired, empty and drowsy. I'm not afraid of morning, only of the long, gloomy afternoons.

Isolation of catastrophic experiences. Dissociation may function to seal off overwhelming trauma into a compartmentalized area of conscious until the person is better able to integrate it into mainstream consciousness. The function of dissociation is particularly common in survivors of combat, political torture, or natural or transportation disasters.

Feeling disconnected from their peers, they were also internally disconnected from their own humanity. It seems clear that violent video games can promote derealization in a susceptible person. For disaffected adolescents who may have undetected and untreated dissociative symptoms, spending hours and hours playing these games in isolation can be dangerous.

Depersonalization—Detachment from one's self, e.g., a sense of looking at one's self as if one is an outsider.

Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.

Privacy is not something that I'm merely entitled to, it's an absolute prerequisite.

My sisters were either still at school or with friends, my mother was out drinking and my father was out whoring. As a result, I sought—as I still do— affection, loyalty and friendship from animals.

You could have a family of one and still drive them apart.

the wait is just as bad because you can't do anything else in Jamaica but wait for something to happen to you.

Nobody loves no one.

Kimmy's not really talking to you. She only needs a witness, not an audience.

Not that I even cared for company. Certainly not these people. But I spend most of my days alone, and my nights with people I never wish to see in the morning. I will admit, at least to my darkest soul, that there was nothing worse to be than in the middle of many souls, even souls you might know, and still be lonely. I have spoken of this before. Men I have met and women too, surrounded by what they think is love and yet are the loneliest in all the ten and three worlds.

Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.

We knew you were gone. We figured out it was something problematic. But mum was the word." According to Margie Pielsticker, "All of a sudden she was gone. We were told that she was at home, sick. No one knew why. Those were the years when you didn't talk about mental illness.

I didn't know! I was here with you all the time. How could I know you were so alone?

The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.

People with [Chronic Fatigue] who kill themselves are the millenium's favorite type of disabled citizens-- those who will walk quietly among the healthy, then quietly dispose of themselves.

Valls permanecía aletargado dentro de su bola de excrementos, pajitas y tierra como la larva subterránea del escarabajo pelotero.

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.