Quotes About Isolation

Bu pencere yaln?z. Bu y?ld?z yaln?z, masada unutulmu? bir c?gara gibi - tüten, mavi mavi tüten, tek ba??na. Ben de yaln?z?m, diyor adam. C?garam? yak?yorum, içiyorum. C?gara içip dü?ünüyorum. Yaln?z de?ilim.

An isolated person is doomed beyond remedy." Yasmina Khadra, Swallows of Kabul

The world is a silence broken by the barking of a stray dog.

Timpul se oprise pentru noi. Bineinteles, ziua continua sa fuga de noapte si seara sa ucida aurorele, dar,in ceea ce ne privea, lucrurile ajunsesera la capatul lor. O noua pagina se deschidea si noi nu figuram acolo. Ratacesc printre umbre si cenusa, de parca as fi o fantoma captive in ruinele mele. Eram convins ca imi pierdusem mintile.

To have nobody is to have not even yourself. Somebody loving you provides a certificate of existence. When a person feels alone, he can't exist without some small social fable.

The world shrivels me day by day.

I go out there. I'm out there every day. [Pause] There is nothing out there.

Fox: It's lonely at the top. Gould: But it ain't crowded.

Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I could not abide?

Once, I had a dream of fame. Generally, even then, I was lonely.

And among the sleeping soldiers and colonists in the crypts lay one apart, a woman who had forgotten the meaning of life.

Seems there's a man in the swamp off 17 that forgot you need to breathe to socialize in these parts.

and you smile back and try not to think about the fact that you have nothing, absolutely nothing, to say to each other.

The city had defeated her, just like they said it would. Like some overcrowded party, no one had noticed her arrival, and would notice if she left.

I have always been well liked, I think, always well regarded and respected, but having few enemies is not the same as having many friends, and there was no denying that I was, if not "lonely", more solitary than I'd hoped to be at that time.

Living in her University town felt like stayng on at a party that everyone else had left.

Lonely' is a troubling word and not one to be tossed around lightly. It makes people uncomfortable, summoning up as it does all kinds of harsher adjectives, like 'sad' or 'strange'. I have always been well liked, I think, always well regarded and respected, but having few enemies is not the same as having many friends, and there was no denying that I was, if not 'lonely', more solitary than I'd hoped to be at that time.

Like some overcrowded party, no-one had noticed her arrival, and no-one would notice if she left.

Lonely' is a troubling word and not one to be tossed around lightly. It makes people uncomfortable, summoning up as it does all kinds of harsher adjectives, like 'sad' or 'strange'. I have always been well liked, I think, always well regarded and respected, but having few enemies is not the same as having many friends, and there was no denying that I was, if not 'lonely', more solitary than I'd hoped to be at that time.

When people read your copy, they are alone. Pretend you are writing each of them a letter on behalf of your client. One human being to another, second person singular.

Profound silence would brood over the valley, even weighing down our spirits with indefinable heaviness. There can be no other place in the world where man feels himself so alone, so isolated, so completely ignored by nature, so incapable of entering into communion with her

As time goes on, she falls further behind in terms of social skills and achievements. As she gets older and her body continues to grow, she is placed in an ever more frightening position with increasing social expectations. Instead of allowing a complex, rich, and confident identity to emerge, she is left with a mostly unconscious wounded self and a childlike, need-driven personality.

You are afraid, afraid of your dreams, your dreams which were once your friends, your best friends, are now your enemies, your worst enemies.

But there are tears in my eyes and then I can't stop crying, stood there on that practice pitch in the dark, the tears rolling down my bloody cheeks, for once in my fucking life glad that I'm alone.