Quotes About Isolation

As he began to withdraw from them, it became clear to Grenouille for the first time that for eighteen years their compacted human effluvium had oppressed him like air heavy with an imminent thunderstorm. Until now he had thought that it was the world in general he had wanted to squirm away from. But it was not the world, it was the people in it. You could live, so it seemed, in this world, in this world devoid of humanity. On

For Grenouille, this simplicity seemed a deliverance.

Virtually drowning in himself, he could not for the life of him smell himself.

For here, inside the crypt, was where he truly lived. Which is to say, for well over twenty hours a day in total darkness and in total silence and in total immobility, he sat on his horse blanket at the end of the stony corridor, his back resting on the rock slide, his shoulders wedged between the rocks and enjoyed himself.

No podía oler la falta de olor del niño y no esperaba ninguna emoción de él porque su propia alma estaba sellada.

Siempre había creído que era del mundo en general de lo que tenia que apartarse, pero ahora lo veía claro no se trataba del mundo, si no de los seres humanos. Al parecer, en el mundo, en el mundo sin hombres, la vida era soportable

Sus excrementos era todo lo que daba al mundo; ni una sonrisa, ni un grito, ni un destello en la mirada, ni siquiera el propio olor.

Kaip patyr?s laivo katastrof? ir savai?i? savait?m pl?duriav?s vendeny nelaim?lis ektaziškai sveikina pirm? žmoni? gyvenam? sal?, taip Grenujis švent? savo atvykim? ant vienatv?s kalno.

Se fue volviendo cada vez más introvertido. Le gustaba vagar solo y sin rumbo...

Être soi-même un gros alambic qui inonderait le monde des parfums qu'il aurait créés seul, tel était le rêve fou auquel s'abandonnait Grenouille.

ever farther from human beings, driving him on ever more insistently toward the magnetic pole of the greatest possible solitude.

Until now he had thought that it was the world in general that he wanted to squirm away from. But it was not the world, it was the people in it. You could live, so it seemed, in this world, in this world devoid of humanity.

There was only one thing the perfume could not do. It could not turn him into a person who could love and be loved like everyone else.

Kad šis dusnus žmoni? tvaikulys aštuoniolika met? sl?g? j? lyg prieš audr? pritvink?s oras, Grenujui paaišk?jo tik dabar, kai prad?jo pamažu iš jo trauktis. Iki šiol jis man?, kad visas pasaulis toks ir kad reikia apskritai jo šalintis. Dabar jam atrod?, kad su pasauliu, pasauliu be žmoni?, visai ?manoma sugyventi.

Es war aber nicht die Welt, es waren die Menschen. Mit der Welt, so schien es, der menschenleeren Welt, ließ es sich leben.

But if you could not close a door behind you to take a shit in the city--even if it was just the door to a shared toilet--if this one, most essential freedom was taken from you, the freedom, that is, to withdraw from other people when necessity called, then all other freedoms were worthless. Then life had no more meaning. Then it would be better to be dead.

De toutes ces péripéties, Jonathan Noël tira la conclusion qu'on ne pouvait se fier aux humains et qu'on ne saurait vivre en paix qu'en les tenant à l'écart.»

People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.

There was only one thing the perfume could not do. It could not turn him into a person who could love and be loved like everyone else. So, to hell with it he thought. To hell with the world. With the perfume. With himself

he came to the conclusion that you cannot depend on people, and that you can live in peace only if you keep them at arm's length.

He realized that all his life he had been a nobody to everyone. What he now felt was the fear of his own oblivion. It was as though he did not exist.

And suddenly solitude fell across his heart like a dusty reflection. He closed his eyes. The dark doors within him opened and he entered. The next performance in the theater of Grenouille's soul was beginning.

Grenouille no longer wanted to go somewhere, but only to go away, away from human beings.

The wind blew cold, and he was freezing, but he did not notice that he was freezing, for within him was a counterfrost, fear.