Quotes About Isolation

It was the part when you said that you do not know anybody, and how that encompasses even you.

He chose illness, because he knew of no other way to be seen. Not even by those looking at him.

Here I did three fucking combat tours serving my country and I feel like a fucking fugitive.

I likewise felt several slender ligatures across my body, from my arm-pits to my thighs. I could only look upwards; the sun began to grow hot, and the light offended my eyes. I heard a confused noise about me; but in the posture I lay, could see nothing except the sky.

animals differ radically among islands that have "the same geological nature

En el pasado, quien deseaba explorar los misterios más profundos de la vida se recluía en un monasterio o llevaba una vida ermitaña; en la actualidad, las relaciones íntimas se han convertido, para muchos de nosotros, en la nueva tierra indómita que nos coloca cara a cara con todos nuestros dioses y demonios.

Estoy solo y no hay nadie en el espejo.

Fame is a form - perhaps the worst form - of incomprehension.

La casa no es tan grande, pensó. La agrandan la penumbra, la simetría, los espejos, los muchos años, mi desconocimiento, la soledad.

In an isolated region from Iran there is this wall tower, windowless, doorless, not very tall. In its only room with arched walls and the stamped earth as its floor, there's a wooden table and a bench. In this round cell a man that looks like me is writing in signs that i don't understand a long poem about a man who in another round cell is writing a poem about a man in another round cell. Endless series; nobody will ever read what prisoners write.

Upstream, Arkansas and Ohio have their bottomlands, too, populated by a jaundiced and hungry-looking race, prone to fevers, whose eyes gleam at the sight of stone and iron, for they know only sand and driftwood and muddy water.

Halfway through his reclusion, Arredondo experienced more than once that almost timeless time. In the first of the house's three patios there was cistern with a frog in it. It never occurred to Arredondo to think that the frog's time, which borders on eternity, was what he himself sought.

Solitude weighs me down. Company does too.

La soledad me pesa. La compañía también.

I'm alone and nobody is in the mirror

La soledad era perfecta y tal vez hostil, y Dahlmann pudo sospechar que viajaba al pasado y no sólo al Sur.

Soy un hombre cobarde; no le dejé mi dirección, para eludir la angustia de esperar cartas.

No sé cuántos días y noches rodaron sobre mí. Doloroso, incapaz de recuperar el abrigo de las cavernas, desnudo en la ignorada arena, dejé que la luna y el sol jugaran con mi aciago destino.

Años de soledad le habían enseñado que los días, en la memoria, tienden a ser iguales, pero que no hay un día, ni siquiera de cárcel o de hospital, que no traiga sorpresas.

In a bronze chamber, before the silent handkerchief of the strangler, hope has been faithful to me, as has panic in the river of pleasure.

All things go off, leaving us. Old age is probably the supreme solitude - except that the supreme solitude is death. - Blindness

The house is not this large, he thought. Other things are making it seem larger: the dim light, the symmetry, the mirrors, so many years, my unfamiliarity, the loneliness.

Yo soy el único espectador de esta calle; si dejara de verla se moriría

Vivió en la soledad, sin una mujer, sin amigos; todo lo amó y lo poseyó, pero desde lejos, como del otro lado de un cristal; murió, y su tenue imagen se perdió, como el agua en el agua