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Quotes About Isolation

Hell is seperation from love.
~ Unknown
Of my friends, I am the only one I have left.
~ Unknown
Then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink
~ John Keats
Hell is a place, a time, a consciousness, in which there is no love.
~ Richard Bach
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
~ Unknown
Lonely is a man without love.
~ Dorothy Parker
Chills stood the hair on the back of his neck on end as he thought of being stuck down in the cavern, forever.
~ Mary Connealy
The isolation of this place tightened like a vise around her throat.
~ Mary Connealy
Someone knocked on his front door, someone brave because Rylan knew he'd not been fit company for anyone.
~ Mary Connealy
I was also struck by how John wasn't really alone out there because he knew had God with him. My pa was a believer, but we never went near a church or talked much about faith or owned a Bible. That Bible I found was an anchor to hold on to. It reminded me God was with me in the wilderness.~ Trace
~ Mary Connealy
I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.
~ Mary Douglas
Awareness There is a dark place. A place where I have no eyes, no mouth. No words. I can't cry out because I have no breath. The silence is so deep I want to die. But I can't. The darkness and silence go on forever. It is not a dream. I don't dream.
~ Mary E. Pearson
What had her life been like in Venda? Or maybe, more precisely, what had they done to her? She was not the result of happy, content parents. It was like she'd been held prisoner in a cellar her whole life. She flinched at sun and an open sky. As soon as we hit the Heethe plateau, she kept her eyes straight ahead on some distant point, her focus like steel, her shoulders rigid, like she carried a heavy pack on her back.
~ Mary E. Pearson
Darkness was my ally. It made me forget the world I was in and invited me to dream of another.
~ Mary E. Pearson
except for the muffled strum of her fingers against metal, the house is still, quiet, but then she hears another sound, this one coming from deep within. a numbing furrow slides through her soul, sliding into her brain, a furrow that seperates one part of her heart from the other. and then it goes quiet agani.
~ Mary E. Pearson
We'd had no outside influences to come between us.
~ Mary E. Pearson
I had never had to deal with dogs in Venda. There were none. They had all been eaten.
~ Mary E. Pearson
My face is full, but also slight, I pale in the bright of light, I whisper sweet to the forest owl, I kiss the air with Wolf's sad howl, Eyes follow me from sea to sea, Yet alone in this world... I will ever be.
~ Mary E. Pearson
We were alone, we had each other, and we had a whole wilderness ahead of us.
~ Mary E. Pearson
But now here I was, out in the middle of nowhere, unable to help anyone, not even myself. I was crushed to the desert floor, my face ground into the sand. Laughed at. Ridiculed. Betrayed by someone I had trusted. More than trusted. I had cared about him.
~ Mary E. Pearson
He looked gloomily out of the misty window, opaque with the breath of himself and an elderly Indian officer, who was his only companion, and watched the fleeting landscape, which had a certain phantom-like appearance in its shroud of snow. He wrapped himself in the vast folds of his railway rug, with a peevish shiver, and felt inclined to quarrel with the destiny which compelled him to travel by an early train upon a pitiless winter's day.
~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon
I wanted to know people. I wanted to love. But I didn't realize how badly I had been hurt. I didn't realize that my habit of distance had become so unconscious and deep that I didn't know how to be with another person. I could only fix that person in my imagination and turn him this way and that, trying to feel him, until my mind was tired and raw.
~ Mary Gaitskill
Oh, there are times, Miss Norah, when I talk to myself--which is bad--or yarn to old Turpentine, my snake, just to hear the sound of words again.
~ Mary Grant Bruce
Suddenly he saw himself as others in the crowd must surely see him; a silent, solitary figure, standing apart from the rest. He looked out at the hoardes of singing, laughing people and felt more alone than he'd ever felt in his life. Was this how it was going to be then? Was this who he was? A man apart from his fellows, making the journey through life alone?
~ Mary Lawson