Quotes About Isolation

…and you smile back and try not to think about the fact that you have nothing, absolutely nothing, to say to each other.

I have lost my smile inside the dim nature of people.

Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

There are people in our society who should be separated and discarded.

You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.

most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.

Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic.

When there is no one to remind you what society's rules are, and there is nothing to keep you linked to that society, you had better be prepared for some startling changes.

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

Death had to take her little by little, bit by bit, dragging her along to the bitter end of the miserable existence she'd made for herself. They never even knew what she did die of. Some spoke of a chill. But the truth was that she died from poverty, from the filth and the weariness of her wretched life.

For a moment, I debated whether I should tell someone about the words I'd started writing down, but I couldn't. In a way, I felt ashamed, even though my writing was the one thing that whispered okayness in my ear. I didn't speak it, to anyone.

Bize dokunmad?lar ama ama en boÅŸ yere yerleÅŸtirdiler, zira hiçlik kadar insan bünyesine a??r gelen bir ÅŸey yoktur.

It is precisely those who are apparently aloof from the world who build for themselves a remarkable and thoroughly individual world in miniature, using their own special equipment, termite-like.

Los celulares ayudan a estar conectados a los que están a distancia. Los celulares permiten a los que se conectan… mantenerse a distancia.

Los celulares ayudan a estar conectados a los que están a distancia. Los celulares permiten a los que se conectan… mantenerse a distancia. Jonathan

Mas o que aprendemos antes de mais nada da companhia de outros é que o único auxílio que ela pode prestar é como sobreviver em nossa solidao irremível, e que a vida de todo mundo é cheia de riscos que devem ser enfrentados solitariamente.

Las uniones no tienen en qué apoyarse salvo en el chateo y los mensajes de texto; la unión sólo se mantiene gracias a nuestra charla, nuestro llamado telefónico, nuestros mensajes de texto. El que deja de hablar queda fuera. El silencio es igual a la exclusión.

In the middle of nowhere, along a quiet stretch of road, the diner dreamt of the hungry dead. And of two men.

Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by plucking out his eyes and sticking them in a drawer.

It is a lonely thing, remembering for someone else.

Six days a week the spirit is alone, disregarded, forsaken, forgotten.

He had no need to push the everyday world away from him. He just stepped out of it whenever he wished.