Quotes About Isolation

Only in solitude do we find ourselves and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

Nada disto tu viste, nada te contei, nada é teu.

Luís Bernardo deixou-se ficar até ao fim, sozinho, mais sozinho do que nunca, como se toda a ilha se tivesse despovoado de repente e, por entre os sinais de abandono e de solidão, ele buscasse os sinais da passagem de Ann para não morrer de loucura.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude," goes the old saying that Francis Bacon repeated, "is either a wild beast or a god.

The worst solitude," wrote Sir Francis Bacon, "is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

the worst moods are reported when one is alone and there is nothing that needs to be done.

Without interest in the world, a desire to be actively related to it, a person becomes isolated into himself.

Socializing of this kind mimics friendship relations, but it provides few of the benefits of the real thing. Everyone takes pleasure in occasionally passing the time of day chatting, but many people become extremely dependent on a daily "fix" of superficial contacts. This is especially true for individuals who cannot tolerate solitude, and who have little emotional support at home.

In contemporary preliterate societies this knowledge is so deeply ingrained that a person who likes to be alone is assumed to be a witch, for a normal person would not choose to leave the company of others unless forced to do so.

la soledad es el patrimonio de la edad adulta.

In my madness I fancied that deep love meant warmth and kindness between two people, and some mutual solace in the hideous loneliness that is the lot of each one of us.

KtoÅ› inny opowiedziaÅ' ze zgrozÄ… o budowie na Gotlandii, na której pracowaÅ' przez trzy miesiÄ…ce. Ani razu nie mo?na byÅ'o zatroszczy? siÄ™ o swojÄ… higienÄ™, bo kultura saunowa nie dotarÅ'a tam na dóÅ'. Zamiast tego le?y siÄ™ tam i pluska we wÅ'asnej brudnej wodzie w tak zwanej wannie.

Shut the world out, withdraw from all worldly thoughts and occupations, and shut yourself in alone with God, to pray to Him in secret. Let this be your chief object in prayer: to realize the presence of your heavenly Father.1 —ANDREW MURRAY

Many faith communities have become little more than gatherings of isolated individuals, while the number of online communities continues to grow.

We are a society of disconnected people longing for connections.

Happy Families. What's that all about, eh? A bloody busted flush is what it is. You surround yourself with other people so the night doesn't seem quite so dark. Shout down the sound of the wind with arguments about whose turn it is to wash the dishes. Best not to kid yourself. Best not to give any hostages to fortune. You're on your own in the end. Always. Where else would you want to be?

South Central Los Angeles, for example, is a data and media black hole, without local cable programming or links to major data systems. Just as it became a housing-and-jobs ghetto in the postwar period, it is now evolving into an off-net electronic ghetto.

who never thought to give her a call, even though, it seemed, they lived their entire lives through their phones.

It used to be the family all looking out for one another but it's not like that anymore. It used to be you at least knew your doctor, but these days you're lucky to get an appointment, let alone see the same GP twice. It used to be your neighbors kept an eye on you but people like to keep themselves to themselves now. It used to be that you belonged to a community, but really, is there such a thing anymore? Now it's more like every man for himself.

Continual frustration of a child's striving for belonging can lead to resentment, hopelessness, or even vengeful behavior. The child who feels "different" most often feels inferior and isolated as well.

her voice suddenly gone as if it had snagged on the mist and was carried off into the failing light, leaving the phone dead in my hand, a warm sliver with the screen fading like some luminous shard from outer space which had traveled across stellar distances at great speed to arrive here in my hand where its glow was now losing its heat, gone

There's great sadness and life doesn't work out like you would want, on a lot of levels, but there's no need to feel all alone. This happens to everybody, so there's no self-pity. This is the ride that humans are on, and all of it is essential for our natural part of it.

With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone.

Fats Boylermaker, 22, who once leaned against a corner light pole from 2 A.M. Sunday until noon Sunday, when the tavern opened again.