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Quotes About Isolation

Father was talking with a guest in the next room, and my words were meant for him. Needless to say, they never reached his ear, let alone his heart.
~ Osamu Dazai
I thought, "As long as I can make them laugh, it doesn't matter how, it'll be all right. If I succeed in that, the human beings probably won't mind it too much if I remain outside their lives. The one thing I must avoid is becoming offensive in their eyes: I shall be nothing, the wind, the sky.
~ Osamu Dazai
Oh, I too am a wretched man. Nobody in this world wants to be my friend. And here I am proud to have caught one single fool like you.
~ Osamu Dazai
I thought, "As long as I can make them laugh, it doesn't matter how, I'll be all right". If I succeed in that, the human beings probably won't mind it too much if I remain outside their lives. The one thing I must avoid is becoming offensive in their eyes: I shall be nothing, the wind, the sky.
~ Osamu Dazai
At that same moment, I became convinced that somewhere another sad and pitiful girl was doing the wash and smiling softly at this very moon.
~ Osamu Dazai
Welcome to Sadness. Population one.
~ Osamu Dazai
Although my body was useless, out of what felt like desperation, I acted out a hateful, scathing punishment. There were days when each time I lowered the hoe, I would groan, "Die! Just die and end it! Die! Die and end it all!" I planted 600 sweet potato vines.
~ Osamu Dazai
loneliness or pain like for him? Last night I
~ Osamu Dazai
?nsanlar?n beni sevdi?ini bilsem de, san?r?m onlar? sevme yetene?im yoktu.
~ Osamu Dazai
It's because people have aspirations and ambitions that solitude wears on them. If you don't have a damn about what the rest of the world is up to, you can be alone for a hundred years- a thousand years- with no difficulty whatsoever. At least, you can if you don't let criticism bother you.
~ Osamu Dazai
Quando scoprii che il mio concetto della felicità sembrava in pieno contrasto con quello d'ogni altra persona, fu tale l'angoscia che mi dibattei gemendo insonne nel mio letto per notti e notti di seguito.
~ Osamu Dazai
Este anciano es un gran aficionado al sake. Un gran bebedor suele ser, en la mayoría de los hogares, un hombre solitario. Decidir si bebe porque es un solitario o si se ha vuelto solitario porque el resto de la familia le ha dado de lado por ser bebedor es tan difícil como dar una palmada y determinar cuál de las dos manos es la que ha sonado...
~ Osamu Dazai
Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be like to live the life of a human being.
~ Osamu Dazai
Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
~ Oscar Levant
Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.
~ Oscar Levant
Consuelo: Away from them, I realised that they formed a circle, or rather a net in which they were enmeshed together. I was the only one out of it. Being near them only made me feel more alone.
~ Unknown
Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.
~ Oscar Wilde
We live, deaf to the land beneath us,Ten steps away no one hears our speeches,But where there's so much as half a conversationThe Kremlin's mountaineer will get his mention.
~ Unknown
A word does not suppress This dryness spreading through, Dense air is emptiness For me without you.
~ Osip Mandelstam
I fear you will be understood only by those who wear the helpless smile of people who have lost themselves in the dark wood
~ Osip Mandelstam
To live a distant, withdrawn, and secluded life is diametrically opposed to spirituality as Jesus Christ taught it.
~ Oswald Chambers
To live a distant, withdrawn, and secluded life is diametrically opposed to spirituality as Jesus Christ taught
~ Oswald Chambers
Will and loneliness are at bottom the same.
~ Oswald Spengler
unhooked telephone": the
~ Unknown