Quotes About Isolation

So - here I am in the dark alone, There's nobody here to see; I think to myself, I play to myself, And nobody knows what I say to myself; Here I am in the dark alone, What is it going to be? I can think whatever I like to think, I can play whatever I like to play, I can laugh whatever I like to laugh, There's nobody here but me.

It's a little Anxious," Piglet said to himself, "to be a Very Small Animal Entirely Surrounded by Water. Christopher Robin and Pooh could escape by Climbing Trees, and Kanga could escape by Jumping, and Rabbit could escape by Burrowing, and Owl could escape by Flying, and Eeyore could escape by -- by Making a Loud Noise Until Rescued, and here am I, surrounded by water and I can't do anything.

I told him that I had at first, when I had to go out to work so young, but I was used to it now and I didn't feel lonely. There were always the birds and the animals in the bush. "They are like music to me.

All the same he got a pinch of misery, thinking, just as he had sometimes in Kentucky when he'd be out in the woods, feeling good that he was alone, with everything to himself, and then he would spy someone and it would all be spoiled, as if the country wasn't his any more, or the woods or the quiet.

Oh tarnish late on Wenlock Edge, Gold that I never see; Lie long high snowdrifts in the hedge That will not shower on me.

A stranger and afraid in a world I never made.

I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.

Un hombre que se deslizaba desesperadamente cuesta abajo, incapaz de pagarse la ropa, la luz ó los alimentos; viviendo igual que una rata en el fondo de una embarcación abandonada, escurriéndose furtivamente por calles laterales, sufriendo a causa del talento frustrado y las oportunidades desperdiciadas.

it was as if she'd shut out the outside world. No, actually, thought Anna-Maria, suddenly feeling uncomfortable. She isn't shutting out the outside world. She's shutting herself in.

She is afraid of depression. It skulks around her house like a shadow: a giant, slow and remorseless. It will be like leaving the door wide-open if she keeps on like this, messing up her routines. So all the giant has to do is crouch down, step inside and get her.

The frontier has been rebuilt. It is now impassable. Our country is surrounded by barbed wire; we are completely cut off from the rest of the world

Sometimes loneliness makes the loudest noise.

The city and the outback were separated by a distance greater than miles. Then,

The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.

Was he actually losing it now, that he talked to himself all the time? Was all of this in his head? But he needed to talk to someone, and without anyone else around, talking to himself would have to do. At

The man walked off into the crowd, and before I knew it, he'd disappeared. There I was with my suitcase, in the middle of the Istanbul Airport. Alone. I didn't even realize I was crying until I saw the tears hitman shoes. Outside was dark. Night. I was nine years old and by myself in a foreign land. I didn't even speak the language. Quite simply, I was terrified" (Kazerooni, 2014, p. 45).

GöndermediÄŸim mektuplar? defterde tuttum, böylece defter yaln?zl?k ve keyifsizlik anlar?m?n topland??? bir yere dönüÅŸtü.

Evin sessizliÄŸi beni boÄŸuyordu ve bana onu hat?rlatan çok fazla eÅŸya vard?.

Nunca temí morir, me daba miedo estar solo. Morir, el acto de morir no tiene en sí mismo ninguna grandeza, nada de misterioso o terrible. Es la muerte, el estar muerto, lo que aún me parece incalculable.

What is it to be rich toward God? To understand this, imagine for a moment everything you call yours in the world as taken from you. Picture yourself abandoned and forgotten of all, in utter isolation alone with your own heart. And then ask yourself: What have I now? What do I now possess?

Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet.

Secrecy lives in the same rooms as loneliness.

He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him...

The word "lazaretto" used to refer to a quarantine station where infectious patients could be isolated, but over time it came to mean a leprosy hospital.