Quotes About Isolation

Why am I letting you comfort me?" He stared over her head. Because I've made sure you have no one else to turn to.

A king of a kingdom no one fucking knows about! I'm the tree in the forest that silently falls--when no one is around to be crushed! [Lothaire, Enemy of Old]

If something happens to me, what would it take to get you to watch over her?" Chase wiped sweat from his brow. "To make sure she gets off the island alive?" "More than you can give. Such as a firstborn to go with my others. Matching set and all.

Her heart sank. That's why he found her attractive- because he'd been so long without. He'd probably find a perfumed rock appealing at this point.

I turned to Cyclops. "You're going to stay here with Finn and Matthew." Talking to the animal always made me feel ridiculous (though he was smarter than most beasts—and I might actually be communicating with Lark). In CLC, the loony bin I'd been clapped up in, patients had only been allowed to watch classic shows on cable, like Lassie. I feared any second I was going to say, "What's that, Cyclops? Timmy fell down a Prepper well?

We were all disconnected now. And I didn't know when the switchboard had gone down. What if he'd . . . drowned?

Still, Kaderin sighed, unable to help feeling very old and very alone.

Never, never make the mistake of thinking you're the only alien on the planet . But that's exactly the way I did feel – different desks, different schedule, halls and halls and halls that all looked the same to me. Everybody else knew their way around. I might as well have been a million light years from home. And lost.

The picture made me heartsick. What could it be like, shut up inside with everything you feel – never having the relief of expression, never sharing anything or releasing anything or trying it out on somebody else? Never asking questions? Only yourself to talk to. Only yourself to listen. Never to be understood. Understood. Not to be loved for what you are. Never to be known.

It was not so much that he was shut out, but that she was trapped inside.

It is easy to disappear when no one is looking at you.

Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country where he has family, colleagues, and friends, and where he can easily say what he has to say in a language he has known since childhood.

Sometimes it was hard to discern judgment from coldness and self-absorption.

It was a lonely life to lead, for I had nothing to think of, having been made such a little while before.

In the civilized countries I believe there are no witches left, nor wizards, nor sorceresses, nor magicians. But, you see, the Land of Oz has never been civilized, for we are cut off from all the rest of the world. Therefore we still have witches and wizards amongst us. Who

No one intended to leave Martha alone that afternoon, but it happened that everyone was called away, for one reason or another.

Seems to me you LIKE bein' lonesome, observed Cap'n Bill. I can't say I like it, exactly, replied the Duck, but since it seems to be my fate, I'm rather proud of it.

I think it is because I have a habit, when I am bored or disgusted with people of stepping suddenly into my own world and shutting the door. People resent this -- I suppose it is only natural to resent a door being shut in your face. They call it slyness when it is only self-defense.

Scary is time passing and sickness and dying and regret and isolation and loneliness and relationship problems - as opposed to a guy in a hockey mask, which didn't seem that scary.

An abusive relationship is worse than being in prison. I mean literally, not figuratively.

It's easier to just be single and not have a relationship.

She stays in the same spot, anchored by the profound, desperate loneliness of a bad relationship.

Relationship is the need of those who cannot be alone. Two alone persons relate, communicate, commune, and yet they remain alone.

From what I've been told, the scariest part of being part of a domestic abuse relationship is the idea that you cannot escape and you cannot get help, that feeling of being stuck.