Quotes About Isolation

A cold winter night. I'm warm enough, yet I'm alone. And I realize that I'll 'have' to get used to existing quite 'naturally' within the solitude, functioning there, working there, accompanied by, 'fastened to' the presence of absence.

I'm cold, the lover says, let's go back, but there is no road, no way, the boat is wrecked.

Depression comes when, in the depths of despair, I cannot manage to save myself by my attachment to writing.

l'amour avait fait de lui un déchet social, ce dont il se réjouissait.

If only we could put our minds in plaster casts like our legs! But I cannot keep from thinking from speaking; no director is there to interrupt the interior movie I keep making of myself, someone to shout *Cut!* Volubility is a specifically human misery; I am language mad; no one listens to me, no one looks at me, but...I go on talking

12 de noviembre Hoy—día de mi cumpleaños—estoy enfermo y no puedo—no puedo ya decírselo a ella.

What I want is a little cosmos (with its own time its own logic) inhabited only by the two of us

Lo que hoy es tabú es la sentimentalidad, no la sexualidad. El sujeto enamorado se siente muy solo hoy frente a lo que "la sociedad" hizo del amor.

Men, as Amundsen liked to say, are the unknown factor in the Antarctic.

The act of vagabonding is not an isolated trend so much as it is a spectral connection between people long separated by place and time, but somehow speaking the same language.

He would smile at times, but I never heard him laugh aloud," said Louisa Boggs. "He was a sad man . . . he seemed almost in despair."124 Grant seemed to be staring into an abyss. "I don't think he saw a light ahead—not a particle. I don't think he had any ambition further than to educate and take care of his family.

He hoarded his money, worked incessantly, and retained a lonely air.

For many years, the Rothschilds, the Nobels, and Standard Oil circled around each other, each trying to forge links with a second party to isolate the third.

Confidentially I prefer not to have it known where I am.

While this resulted largely from his aversion to publicity, it also stemmed from his residing in Cleveland.

He is very well and jolly by bits but sometimes I see he feels as lonely as I do

Jack often seemed embarrassed by his remoteness from Pierpont.

think she was also thinking, perhaps, of Justine, up there in the big house among the tall candles and the oil-paintings by forgotten masters.

I would have to confess that in the land of the toubabu, I had managed to save only myself.

One of the most difficult of all things to endure for a crow, a raven, a wolf, or a human is to feel alone and separated from one's own kind. A sense of belonging is one of the most universal of all feelings.

prize to be won by loving the world may seem desirable. But love for the world guarantees an empty, meaningless life, isolated from intimate relationship with God and void of the fulfillment that living in His will provides.

Maintenant, je le sais bien. On ne partage pas les rêves.

And Josh wanted to tell her what he knew: that love might look like a shore but turn out to be a desert island, where you roamed alone, talking to yourself, trying to crack open coconuts with your shoe. So thirsty you drank the salt water. So hungry you ate the sand.

I want to be alone. I don't want to be alone. My days pop like bubbles. There is no one to remember the things that have happened to me.