Quotes About Isolation

Jeg trekker meg tilbake til en verden der styggheten eksisterer.

That road, as it turned out, would be even lonelier than she had reason to fear.

In the beginning, deep in the papyrus, we hoped help would come. But God Himself showed that He had forgotten us, so all the more reason for the Whites to do the same.

It's a physical urge, stronger than thirst or sex. Halfway back on the left side of my head there is a spot that longs for the jolt of a bullet, that yearns for that fire, that final empty rip. I want to be let out of this cavern, to open myself up to the ease of not-living. I am tired of sorrow and struggle and worry. I am tired of my sad sister. I want to turn out the last light.

In some ways we were more remote than strangers because strangers at least have the possibility of yet unmade connections.

I think he's telling the truth," she said. "Like prison inmates have grapevines that keep them informed about what's happening on the outside, these kids have the same sort of system. It's rather remarkable when you think about it.

He rode alone to the tenth floor, got off and strode into the newsroom. It was so strange, he thought, to see it empty. It was not the way he wanted to remember it.

When we live in memory we cut ourselves off from the universe, we live in isolation. This is the root of all suffering.

Emotion integrates but emotivity isolates. So free yourself from affectivity. In this absence of emotivity, you may have the impression at first that you become indifferent. But very soon you'll see that there is really affection for your surroundings. Emotion, affection, is giving.

When you are alone, you have all the time in the world to practice whistling like a bird. When there is no one in the world you can turn to, a horse or .even a lion may give you companionship. When you don't know if there is anyone in the world like you, you seek contact with something living however you can

A stunning 31% more 8th and 10th graders felt lonely in 2015 than in 2011, along with 22% more 12th graders

All in all, iGen'ers are increasingly disconnected from human relationships—

Your universe has no meaning to them. They will not try to understand. They will be tired, they will be cold, they will make a fire with your beautiful oak door...

You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world...

I would never be part of anything. I would never really belong anywhere, and I knew it, and all my life would be the same, trying to belong, and failing. Always something would go wrong. I am a stranger and I always will be, and after all I didn't really care.

A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.

Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.

Yes, I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness, sad as an eagle without wings, sad as a violin with only one string and that one broken, sad as a woman who is growing old. Sad, sad, sad...

Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.

To be adult is to be alone.

To be an adult is to be alone.

Is it not true that in ancient times the worst punishment of all was not death, but banishment?

On the way back something very strange happened. I didn't realize I was going to say it, but I said out loud, "I wish I was dead"... the love and the beauty and the ecstasy of the whole experience I'd just gone through were really so alien. I didn't even know the man... it had been a one-night jag... he was married and had children... and I just felt lost. It hardly seemed worth living any more because once again I was alone.

Social life almost ceased. Even in church, each worshipper was wary of his neighbour.