Quotes About Isolation

Then literature has the glorious solitude of reason, that rarefied life at the heart of the whole which would require resolution and courage if this reason were not in fact the stability of an ordered aristocratic society; that is, the noble satisfaction of a part of society which concentrates the whole within itself by isolating itself well above what sustains it.

Each time, Thomas was thrust back into the depths of his being by the very words which had haunted him and which he was pursuing as his nightmare and the explanation of his nightmare. He found that he was ever more empty, ever heavier; he no longer moved without infinite fatigue. His body, after so many struggles, became entirely opaque, and to those who looked at it, it gave the peaceful impression of sleep, though it had not ceased to be awake.

They do not think of death, having no other relation but with death.

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

And it is because we all of us know of this sombre power and its perilous manifestations, that we stand in so deep a dread of silence. We can bear, when need must be, the silence of ourselves, that of isolation: but the silence of many - silence multiplied - and above all the silence of a crowd - these are supernatural burdens, whose inexplicable weight brings dread to the mightiest soul.

I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput. I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowhere and they don't exist, but if nowhere means that's where they are, that's where I want to be.

We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog has made an alliance with us.

Technology… the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

If you're a hermit, nothing ever happens in your life," he said. "If you're the opposite of a hermit, things happen.

Potiorek was a bachelor who had devoted his life monastically to his profession, while remaining ignorant of every aspect of it that was either modern or important;

dominant feeling of the battlefield is loneliness, gentlemen.

And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast.

We do not aspire to communal life but to a life apart.

Calvinist believers were psychologically isolated. Their distance from God could only be precariously bridged, and their inner tensions only partially relieved, by unstinting, purposeful labor.

She was one of the stars, a bright dot in blackness, without home, without a companion, in eternal cold and silence.

In the country of pain we are each alone.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.

My facea negative in the slatewindow,I sitin a litcorridor that racesthrough a darkone.Riding the "A" [1963]

I'm two eyes looking out of a suit of armor. I write because I can't talk.

When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.

In which they are alone now and there doesn't seem to be anyone around. Sometime

My parents' silences about many things alarmed me. They made me aware of invisible lines that I couldn't see that they drew between themselves and the rest of the world. I never knew when that line might be drawn to exclude me.