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Quotes About Isolation

I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.
~ R.L. Stine
I'm so tired of being lonely,she thought. In so tired of never going out, of never being with a boy,off never having a boy care about me.
~ R.L. Stine
She realized she'd never felt this happy.even at her old school, she had been an outsider, always the lonely girl,the one who stayed at home watching tv on Saturday nights while her friends went to parties and out on dates.
~ R.L. Stine
But I wasn't feeling like a winner. I felt like an ugly freak.
~ R.L. Stine
I can't speak my own language - Iesu, All those good words; And I outside them.
~ R.S. Thomas
Me? I was lost for long time. I didn't make any friends for few years. You can say I made friends with two trees, two big trees in the middle of the school […]. I spent all my free time up in those trees. Everyone called me Tree Boy for the longest time. […]. I preferred trees to people. After that I preferred pigeons, but it was trees first.
~ Rabih Alameddine
One reason we desire explanations is that they separate us and make us feel safe.
~ Rabih Alameddine
I was a lonely boy. I spent all my time reading books and watching the world. [some] tried to draw me out at first, but their hearts weren't in it. And after all, they had enough troubles of their own.
~ Rabih Alameddine
Can you imagine how lonely she must have felt when she received that phone call? Your lover has just died, your companion has abandoned you, but don't you dare make an inappropriate sound, because your family is around. No one to touch you the way he did, no one to understand you, no one to hug you to sleep, but don't dare allow your face to show a glint of grief. The cutting pain of feeling alone amid loved ones.
~ Rabih Alameddine
I was always alone, Doc, solitary whether I wished to be or not, ever since I could remember I wished to be lost in another, thought that somehow I could disappear into that heart of yours, take walks within your veins, wander through the bones of you. You had friends, Satan said, you loved and were loved, you must not forget that, at least not that. But did I allow anyone in, I asked Satan, and he said, Did you, does anyone?
~ Rabih Alameddine
The cure for loneliness is solitude. —Marianne Moore, from the essay "If I Were Sixteen Today
~ Rabih Alameddine
Of course, like Descartes, Newton, Locke, Pascal, Spinoza, Kierkegaard, Leibniz, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Wingenstein, Kant never formed an intimate tie or reared a family.
~ Rabih Alameddine
I'd read through the whole thing twice, and I used to go on and on: Marcel, the spectacular writer, my idol, and so forth. I used to blather endlessly about why I adored him, how he, the desperate socialite and party hopper, the inveterate pleaser, was actually the outsider par excellence, how he could be amid all the people he'd always dreamed of befriending yet remain alone in the universe, the loneliest speck of all.
~ Rabih Alameddine
My Existence is Uncomfortable for People
~ Rabih Alameddine
She was socially inept, an affliction I am quite intimate with.
~ Rabih Alameddine
I never wanted to be prominent enough to have enemies.
~ Rabih Alameddine
I am my family's appendix, its unnecessary appendage. -Aaliya
~ Rabih Alameddine
I sit in the dark. And it would be hard to figure out which is worse: the dark inside, or the darkness out.
~ Rabih Alameddine
This village is a real trap. Bit by bit it will eat up every single person who remain here. This place will never change.
~ Rabindranath Maharaj
Poems On Life: Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it. Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love. Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole. Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
If no one responds to your call, then go your own way alone.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
The birds looked upon me as nothing but a man, quite a trifling creature without wings—and they would have nothing to do with me. Were it not so I would build a small cabin for myself among their crowd of nests and pass my days counting the sea waves.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Amal: It isn't sad. When they shut me in here first I felt the day was so long. Since the King's Post Office I like it more and more being indoors, and as I think I shall get a letter one day, I feel quite happy and then I don't mind being quiet and alone. I wonder if I shall make out what'll be in the King's letter? Gaffer: Even if you didn't wouldn't it be enough if it just bore your name?
~ Rabindranath Tagore
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~ Rabindranath Tagore