Quotes About Isolation

Grauman died of heart failure in the spring of 1950, died a bachelor, aged seventy-one, and the only people at his deathbed were his doctor, his secretary for the past twenty-one years, and the publicity chief of 20th Century—Fox. Long

Man is alone in the world, in tremendous eternal isolation. He has no object outside himself; lives for nothing else; he is far removed from being the slave of his wishes, of his abilities, of his necessities; he stands far above social ethics; he is alone. Thus he becomes one and all.

Once again alone, my grief was unrestrained; so much so that the woman of the house came and hammered at the door and swore at me for a "dratted yelping beast," which only made my cries the louder. As several hours went on, however, and my solitude remained unbroken, I cried myself so hoarse that I was unable to emit any sort of sound at last; and thought I might as well vary my imprisonment by looking out of the casement.

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. Anne Morrow Lindberg

Before the scientific revolution, [man] did not feel himself isolated by his skin from the world outside to quite the same extent that we do. He was integrated, or mortised into it, each different part of him being united to a different part of it by some invisible thread. In his relation to his environment, the man of the middle ages was rather less like an island, rather more like an embryo.

I wasn't exactly much fun to be around. Being with me was like falling into an abyss.

Before I could cry or scream I whirled around and stalked to my bedroom,slamming the door behind me. I hope they all drown. "Zoey your mother and I need to speak with you." Great. Clearly they didn't drown.

Perón utilizó a la juventud y a la izquierda para romper su aislamiento en el exilio. Los llamó la "nueva estrella" del movimiento. Pero una vez en el poder decidió, por propia voluntad, combatir a la izquierda revolucionaria y para eso le dio amplios poderes al ministro de Bienestar Social, José López Rega.

I've said many times that statistics reveal a surprising city: one that has more movie theaters than Paris, more abortions than London, more universities than New York. Where nighttime has become sparse, desolate, the kingdom of only a few. Where violence rules, corners us, silences us into a kind of autism.

Solitude is the source of happiness

Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.

Driving a cab is not really a nurturing type of relationship. You take people and they tip you, they may not tip you, you don't know their names, they don't care about you, you don't care about them.

But the truth was when it came to grief, each person was an island, alone.

But the truth was when it came to grief, each person was an island, alone. She'd learned that the hard way. She had tried to join a war widows group in New York shortly after she had arrived. She'd hoped she would find some connection that would help her break through the wall that seemed to have formed around her heart, but as she sat among those sorry women who had supposedly known what she had gone through, she had never felt more alone.

Simon and I are like young children I have seen in the park sitting beside each other in the sandbox but playing alone, not interacting. Two people living separate lives in the same space.

But the truth was when it came to grief, each person was an island, alone. She'd learned that the hard way. She

The two worst things ever invented was air-conditioning and television. First, the air-conditioning made it so folks didn't want to go out of doors no more. And since they was all cooped up inside their cold houses, they needed something to do, so some other feller invented television. Now, you tell me one good thing ever come from them two contraptions." He paused. "You can't, can you?

Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.

Victims of human trafficking have limited access to help and often do not self-identify, especially when they have been isolated from friends and family for long periods of time. Feelings of shame and fear of reporting to law enforcement may also add to a reluctance to seek help."   —National Human Trafficking Resource Center

So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone.

This is also why Anglo-American achievements cannot be seen in isolation from their ambiguous consequences and victims elsewhere; why many Anglo-American assumptions, derived from a unique and unrepeatable historical experience, are an unreliable guide to today's chaos, especially as it infects Anglo-America.

Il viaggio immobile è il più difficile di tutti, perché non hai scampo, sei solo con te stesso, in preda alle visioni, e lasciarsi andare è facile, quasi naturale.

However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.

Depression is the ultimate state of disconnection, not just between people but between one's mind and one's feelings.