Quotes About Isolation

America was an iceberg shattered into a billion fragments, and on each stood a person, rotating like an ice floe in a storm.

Snow girl was glad she had left her own feelings behind.

I sit on my narrow bunk and caress my long yellow toenails and stare at my walls.

He knows when she passes, a grief will rip through him unlike anything he has ever known. Preparing for it doesn't help. He just knows it will come. It is like realizing you are sailing a boat across an ocean and soon you will find the other shore—it will be just you and acres of dry, blinding white sand. There may be trees on that island, and sun, and food, but none of it will feel or taste right, because you will stand there and realize: I am alone.

Deep in her secret heart, in the pure place she protects, she is afraid she will always be alone—that she will go through life without being known. And she will not survive that.

Naomi felt very small, hiking through this endless dark forest. Fresh snow dusted the ground.

My soul left me when I was six. It flew away past a flapping curtain over a window. I ran after it, but it never came back. It left me alone on wet stinking mattresses. It left me alone in the choking dark. It took my tongue, my heart, and my mind.

I walked until I was ensconced in darkness. Then I began to shout. I wanted a friend more than anything. I was beside myself.

Increasingly solitary, he saw his life as all that was left to him: a tattered sail that might bear the wind but would bring him to no haven.

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He had retreated into a silent movie of his own making and I was watching from the anonymous remove of a theater seat. He was flickering, growing distant, fading like the '82 Latour.

Rachael could find no solace in other people's tales of woe. Pain was uniquely one's own, and undiminished by a democracy of suffering.

Lady Pamela Sutton stared at the dreary government-issued posters on the wall of her small cubicle in Hut 3.

But it was that core group of popular girls who moved in a pack, like wolves, and loved to pick on anyone weaker than them who made it quite clear that I did not belong.

To realise that one has nobody in the world—that is a sobering thought.

A ratos preocupado porque llevo muchos meses sin escribir, marcado por el vértigo y la circulación social. Reuniones, fiestas, entretenimientos. Decidido a terminar con esa farsa y sentarme a escribir salga como salga, por fin.

Y si: el mundo de la pantalla seguía siendo el gobierno de las muchedumbres. Y el narcisismo campeaba y la paranoia cundía porque todos estábamos mirándonos a todos. Y no había allí nadie que no pareciera atrapado en su cabeza

In Montana, a policeman will pull you over because he is lonely.

It isn't all omen, Wood. Tarot teaches us to see beyond surface effects. The falling man- While the Tower was a stronghold built to protect him, it has become a place of isolation, a prison from which the lightning has freed him. He's falling, but he hasn't landed. His future is unknown. If he survives, he will no longer dwell in the clouds. He will be part of the world.

Barth identifies three temptations that beset Christian ethics: (1) apologetics: the temptation to justify theological ethics on nontheological grounds; (2) differentiation: the temptation to isolate theological ethics as a special sphere of inquiry sharply distinguished from philosophical ethics; (3) coordination: the temptation to correlate theological ethics and philosophical ethics as mutually complementary.

The longer you went without speaking, the harder it gets to break the silence.

In fact, Reagan couldn't remember his grandchildren's names, and he had no friends, only the husbands of Nancy's friends.

I'll tell you about it because I am here and you are distant.

Depression can seem absurdly self aggrandizing to those who do not experience it, But that does not make it any less painful to those who do.