Quotes About Isolation

Viv feels the hand go bloodless and numb against her neck; startled, she turns to look at his face. There is no expression at all. For a moment he is gone from his face, as though he had fallen somewhere inward, away from her and the old man and the fire, into a remote pool of himself

I turned, going back along the planks toward the idling pick-up without saying anything else. I just wanted to be away from people. I didn't want to have to avoid answering questions about what happened. I didn't want the questions.

I guess this is what it's like to be a Vegetable; you lose yourself in the fog. You don't move. They feed your body till it finally stops eating; then they burn it. It's not so bad. There's no pain. I don't feel much of anything other than a touch of chill I figure will pass in time.

When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.

The most incredible gift you can give someone in a video is to help them feel less alone... The things that make us feel the most alone, have the greatest power to connect us

Leaden trumpets spit the soot of power they say"I'm on your side when nobody is, cause nobody is.Come sit right here and sleep while I slip poison in your ear

Power is lonely. Power stands apart. I have power. Therefore, I'm lonely.

Isolation from power makes men look for a mob in which they can be strong.

It didn't take a trauma to make you wear a mask. It didn't take your parents getting shot...or cosmic rays or a power ring...Just the perfect combination of loneliness and despair.

The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.

You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood.

Destabilization and turmoil,[Steven] Lerner hopes, will also crash the stock market, isolating the banking class and allowing for a transfer of power.

We've known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it.

Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.

Word-Power'Being stuck in my room, I've become a world traveler.If you wonder how...just guess how I've reached you right now

The tragedy of power like mine is that there is no way down. There can only be extinction. Dust to dust rags to rags fear to fear.

We were the only humans - the only forms of life, in fact - for hundreds of miles in each direction, unreaching and unreachable as we rocketed back towards civilisation.

A writer's tragedy: to know all the words and nothing else.

Anything that makes you feel the most alone also has the greatest power to connect you.

True prayer is a lonely business.

Cut off from the Body into which alone the graces of Christ flow, you are deprived of the benefit of all prayers, sacrifices, and Sacraments.

Every nerve in my body is so vacant and numb/I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from/Don't even hear a murmur of a prayer/It's not dark yet, but it's getting there.

The more complicated the movie, the more complex the budget, the more lonely it gets. There's a point where ... who do you go to, other than prayer and friends?

We are to be shut out from men, and shut in with God.