Quotes About Isolation

In her present mood of self-disgust, she could not immediately begin dreaming again. And she discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms.

An hour ago on the sand-shore he has been looking at her as if she were the only being of any importance in the world. And now she was a nobody.

It was less humiliating to admit crying because of your feet than because - because somebody had been amusing himself with you and your friends had forgotten you, and other people patronised you.

It is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own

Pride is cold company

And she discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms.

You see — I've never had any real life. I've just — breathed.

but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by a happiness that is not your own.

The whitewashed walls were so painfully bare and staring that she thought they must ache over their own bareness.

Only lonely people keep diaries

As for Barney Snaith, the only crime he has been guilty of is living to himself and minding his own business. He can, it seems, get along without you. Which is an unpardonable sin, of course, in your little snobocracy.

Trees aren't much company, though dear knows if they were there'd be enough of them.

The moment when a woman realises that she has nothing to live for--neither love, duty, purpose nor hope--holds for her the bitterness of death.

Rachel will be left pretty lonely if anything happens to him, with all her children settled out west, except Eliza in town; and she doesn't like her husband. Marilla's pronouns slandered Eliza, who was very fond of her husband.

It was really dreadful to be so different from other people . . . and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star. Hazel would not have been one of the common herd for anything . . . no matter what she suffered by reason of her differentness.

But there is strength in numbers and at noon hour Emily found herself standing alone on the playground facing a crowd of unfriendly faces. Children can be the most cruel creatures alive. They have the herd instinct of prejudice against any outsider, and they are merciless in its indulgence

when the darkness is close to us it is a friend. But when we sorter push it away from us—divorce ourselves from it, so to speak, with lantern light—it becomes an enemy.

feel that she possesses a rich nature, into which a friend might enter as into a kingdom; but for some reason she bars every one out and shuts all her possibilities up in herself, so that they cannot develop and blossom.

Anne smiled again, bravely facing the long years of solitary imprisonment before her.

Bets seemed to die afresh every time there was something Pat wanted to share with her and could not.

It really was dreadful to be so different from other people... and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were being strayed from another star.

Shut the windows, draw the curtains, keep the rumour out!

But then, no one really got her. No one in the world understood. Hell, if she was honest with herself, not even she understood.

There isn't a thought in my head I care to be alone with for more than five minutes.