Quotes About Isolation

And no matter how many people surround you, that is still the loneliest place on earth.

So goodbye from Alaska, where I am the most important person for twenty miles in any direction. (I'm the only person for twenty miles in any direction.) Maddie

I wanted to wallow in my solitude and grief

Sometimes, people run to see if anybody will come after them.

These are the things I never say to anyone anymore. Not because I don't want to say them — I want to scream them. But these are the things that no one else can bear to hear.

A mind is totally big enough to get lost inside - to go crazy if you're left with too much time and too much room to let your biggest fears run free.

Dear Logan, Alaska's really big. And really pretty. It's also really lonely. Sometimes I ask Dad why we're here and he says it's for our health. Or because I'm almost old enough that he was going to have to "beat the boys off with sticks" if we'd stayed in DC. I don't think that's it, though. But if it is, he's found the place where the stick-to-boy ration is probably the highest on earth. Maddie

The embassy is not haunted. But I am.

I know how it feels to be watched every second of every day. I know what it's like to trust fewer and fewer people until it seems like you are completely alone in the world. I know that you think that the only things that are left in the world are the bad things. I know what you're feeling, Cam. - Macey

You have never felt the weight of disappointing love or of failing to live up to expectations. The only thing you've ever been is lonely by yourself-you have no idea how desperate it is to be lonely in the midst of people who love you, and whom you would have done anything to make happy..

Y estaba sola, me sentía sola, incapaz de hablar, que es quizás la peor forma de la soledad.

Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.

loneliness flowed through my bones with an ache.

He was a hostage of the void

So you've made a friend. How sad for them.

a pesar del aislamiento de nuestras propias vidas, siempre seguimos conectados con nuestros ancestros; nuestros cuerpos guardan los recuerdos de aquellos que nos antecedieron, sea en los rasgos que heredamos o en una disposición que está grabada en nuestras almas.

Japón es un país que sabe lo que significa volverse loco

But humankind doesn't give a damn ! The proof of it is that in twenty-four years this novel has been collecting dust in libraries and no one, you hear me, no one has ever even talked to me about it. And that's perfectly normal because, as I told you, no one has read it.

That was what university was: thinking you were going to open yourself up to a universe, and meeting nobody.

I libri scritti per pura bontà sono rarissimi. Sono opere che si creano in abiezione e in solitudine, ben sapendo che dopo averle scagliate in faccia al mondo si sarà ancora più soli e più abietti. È normale, la principale caratteristica della gentilezza disinteressata è di essere irriconoscibile, inconoscibile, invisibile, insospettabile, perché un beneficio che dica il suo nome non è mai disinteressato.

Si je vis seul, ce n'est pas tant par amour de la solitude que par haine du genre humain.

Vivir en el extranjero era una enfermedad respiratoria.

N'est-il pas réconfortant, pour un vrai, un pur, un grand, un génial écrivain comme moi, de savoir que personne ne me lit ? Que personne ne souille de son regard trivial les beautés auxquelles j'ai donné naissance dans le secret de mes tréfonds et de ma solitude ?

Por la ventana, la interminable Siberia, totalmente blanca de invierno, prisión ideal debido a su inmensidad. Los que huyen mueren perdidos en un exceso de espacio. Es