Quotes About Isolation

The modern age has brought the geography of the earth near to us, but made it difficult for us to come into touch with man

The absence of human company and affection seemed to choke his heart.

While Ratan was awaiting her call, the postmaster was awaiting a reply to his application.

The cramped atmosphere of neglect oppressed Phatik so much that he felt that he could hardly breathe.

The road is lonely in its crowd for it is not loved.

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I probably didn't share his feelings – he hoped, really, that I didn't – but he was no longer interested in socialising; in fact, increasingly he found other people positively bewildering. The interesting ones are like islands, he said: you don't bump into them on the street or at a party, you have to know where they are and go to them by arrangement.

Money is a country all its own.

This feeling, that she was the invisible witness to another person's solitude - a kind of ghost - nearly drove her mad for awhile.

The day lies ahead empty of landmarks, like a prairie, like an untraversable plain.

I saw, in other words, that I was alone, and saw the gift and the burden of that state.

The interesting ones are like islands, he said: you don't bump into them on the street or at a party, you have to know where they are and go to them by arrangement.

I wander through the dark house, checking the locks on the doors and windows, for it feels as though the outside is coming in, as though a wall of defence has come down, as though the doors and windows may as well not be there at all.

What is the point of self pity if there is was nobody to pity you for it?

what is the point of self pity if there was nobody to pity you for it?

Es dificilísimo que hasta los más bondadosos, los que más te quieren, se tomen tus intereses verdaderamente en serio, porque suelen aconsejarte desde una vida más segura y más aislada que la tuya, en la que escapar no es una realidad, sino algo con lo que de vez en cuando sueñan.

I saw, in other words, that I was alone, and saw the gift and the burden of that state, which had never truly been revealed to me before.

It's limiting, Louis went on, to be known: you can't behave without inhibition. You can go to the ends of the earth but if you meet someone there who knows your name, you might as well have stayed at home.

Looking after children is a low-status occupation. It is isolating, frequently boring, relentlessly demanding and exhausting.

The second place was one such bridge, and Tony's silence ran undisrupted beneath it like a river.

no longer interested in socialising; in fact, increasingly he found other people positively bewildering. The interesting ones are like islands, he said: you don't bump into them on the street or at a party, you have to know where they are and go to them by arrangement

Loneliness, she said, is when nothing will stick to you, when nothing will thrive around you, when you start to think that you kill things just by being there.

She wondered whether the books she loved consoled her precisely because they were the manifestations of her own isolation.

Everyone has these rooms if they'd only realize it. And the most important thing is to find out what a room's trouble is. Usually, it is simply neglect, physical or social.