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Quotes About Isolation

Wondeful how one loses track of the days up here in the mountains.
~ Ernest Hemingway
But you have not slept yet, old man," he said aloud. "It is half a day and a night and now another day and you have not slept. You must devise a way so that you sleep a little if he is quiet and steady. If you do not sleep you might become unclear in the head.
~ Ernest Hemingway
write. There was going to be everything that a man needed to write except to be alone. Zelda
~ Ernest Hemingway
Every man needs to speak to someone. Before we had faith and other foolishness. Now everyone needs to have someone with whom it can talk to plainly, because a man, in addition to his boldness he can have, feels very lonely.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. It has only happened to me like that once.
~ Ernest Hemingway
No matter how a man alone ain't got no bloody fucking chance.
~ Ernest Hemingway
A man is never lost at sea and it is a long island." It
~ Ernest Hemingway
The three of us sat at the table, and it seemed as though about six people were missing.
~ Ernest Hemingway
He was not at all afraid of dying but he was angry at being trapped on this hill which was only utilizable as a place to die.
~ Ernest Hemingway
and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea. He
~ Ernest Hemingway
sentía la soledad de muerte que llega al cabo de cada día de la vida que uno ha desperdiciado.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I said, 'Who killed him?' and he said 'I don't know who killed him, but he's dead all right,' and it was dark and there was water standing in the street and no lights or windows broke and boats all up in the town and trees blown down and everything all blown and I got a skiff and went out and found my boat where I had her inside Mango Key and she was right only she was full of water.
~ Ernest Hemingway
If the other fishermen heard me talk aloud, they would probably think I'm mad. But since I'm not, I really do not care
~ Ernest Hemingway
A country, finally, erodes and the dust blows away, the people all die and none of them were of any importance permanently, except those who practised the arts, and these now wish to cease their work because it is too lonely, too hard to do, and is not fashionable.
~ Ernest Hemingway
When you cannot make friends any more in your head is the worst.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Todos precisam ter alguém para conversar - disse a mulher. - Antes, tínhamos a religião e outras coisas sem sentido. Agora, cada um precisa ter com quem falar abertamente. Pois quanto mais bravura alguém tiver, mais solitário vai ficando.
~ Ernest Hemingway
and I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life
~ Ernest Hemingway
Nicholas Adams drove on through the town along the empty, brick-paved street ... on under the heavy trees of the small town that are a part of your heart if it is your town and you have walked under them, but that are only too heavy, that shut out the sun and that dampen the houses for a stranger.
~ Ernest Hemingway
no man was ever alone on the sea.
~ Ernest Hemingway
It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. And what beat you, he thought. "Nothing," he said aloud. "I went out too far.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I know how you feel, Dave, Andrew said when he brought the Coke. Nobody knows how I feel, David said.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Er þér sama um líf og þjáningar annarrar mannveru? Þín að minstakosti. Þú ert kvikindi. Já. Ég hélt þú myndir hjálpa mér Hem. Ég myndi feginn vilja skjóta þig.
~ Ernest Hemingway
An echo would die of lonesomeness out there.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Nadie debiera estar solo en su vejez. Pero es inevitable.
~ Ernest Hemingway