Quotes About Isolation

If God had intended us to be alone, there would be more pleasure in massaging our own shoulders.

No one complains of being a prisoner of love who has ever been a prisoner of loneliness.

There are days when you seek the company of your solitude, and your solitude just wants to be left alone.

For myself, there is something which makes suicide possible - not even possible but absolutely necessary: it is the vision of the void, the feeling of void which is impossible to bear.

There's not a ship in sight; And as the sun goes under Thick clouds conspire to cover The moon that should rise yonder. Thou art alone, fond lover.

Setebos, Setebos, and Setebos!'Thinketh, He dwelleth i' the cold o' the moon.

Every man for himself, the devil for all.

ISP: The Interface Segregation Principle This principle advises software designers to avoid depending on things that they don't use.

If component A should be protected from changes in component B, then component B should depend on component A.

and all the strange rats we saw looked, to us, surprisingly weak and puny. So we were set apart from even our own kind.

He became reflective and, somehow, withdrawn [zamknutym]. He gave up games but not books, and would go off in a corner and read assiduously."[127] Thus, young Djugashvili began to show the reticence and brooding aloofness from others that would characterize him in later years.

Since then the Revolution had gone through a first period of utter isolation and a second period of open war with the Entente, and now had entered a third period of being not only recognized abroad but even a little feared.

Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.

Amazing, I thought, how busily we had turned ourselves into people who didn't know one another very well.

The universe, it seemed, was full to brimming with lonesome places.

Turk had family in Austin, Texas. But they hadn't heard from him lately and wouldn't expect to.

Finch refused to discuss these ideas and didn't brook criticism from his colleagues, much less from a mere photographer. What must it be like, Guilford wondered, to have such a baroque architecture crammed inside one's skull? Such a strange cathedral, so well buttressed, so well defended?

Amazing, I thought, how busily we had turned ourselves into people who didn't know one another very well.

There is something mournful and uneasy about waking up late at night on a moving train. The wheels clicked a bony rhythm, the engine growled like a distant Leviathan, and from time to time the whistle sounded a cry so lonesome it seemed to speak for the whole wide moonless night.

The more you are in contact with others, the more graceful and at ease you become. Isolation, on the other hand, engenders an awkwardness in your gestures, and leads to further isolation, as people start avoiding you.

Cultures have norms that reflect centuries of shared beliefs and ideals. Do not expect to scoff at such things with impunity. You will be punished somehow, even if just through isolation — a position of real powerlessness.

Las vícti- mas correctas son aquellas en las que puedes llenar un vacío, las que ven en ti algo exótico. A menudo están aisladas o son al menos un tanto infelices (a causa tal vez de recientes circunstancias adversas), o se les puede llevar  con facilidad  a ese punto,  porque la persona total- mente satisfecha es casi imposible de seducir.

La gente está cada vez más aislada, y ansía experiencias colectivas. Permite que tu ferviente y contagiosa fe, en prácticamente todo, le dé algo en qué creer.

El aislamiento es tan fatal para las artes creativas como para las artes sociales.