Quotes About Isolation

In front of him, nothing. He had a sudden glimpse of what he had considered invisible. The end of the world.

When loneliness mastered him he would go up to the cemetery...The rest of his time was taken up with a liturgy of habits that succeeded in warding off sadness.

Doch es gibt Schiffe, die an absurderen Orten gestrandet sind. Ein Leben kann leicht in irgendeinem Gesicht stranden.

Per qualche ragione che non capiva, era finalmente sola, in modo perfetto, come soli non si è mai - o di rado, pensò, in qualche abbraccio da'amore

Aquel hombre para el que todos en aquel pueblo vivían, se movía siempre en una burbuja de vacío. Como si un precepto tácito ordenara al mundo que lo dejaran vivir solo.

A voler essere precisi, Novecento non esisteva nemmeno, per il mondo: non c'era città, parrocchia, ospedale, galera, squadra di baseball che avesse scritto da qualche parte il suo nome. Non aveva patria, non aveva data di nascita, non aveva famiglia. Aveva otto anni: ma ufficialmente non era mai nato.

I mercanti cinesi, olandesi e inglesi avevano cercato ripetutamente di rompere quell'assurdo isolamento, ma avevano ottenuto soltanto di metter su una fragile e pericolosa rete di contrabbando. Ci avevano guadagnato pochi soldi, molti guai e alcune leggende, buone da vendere nei porti, la sera.

Il mondo, magari, non l'aveva visto mai. Ma erano ventisette anni che il mondo passava su quella nave: ed erano ventisette anni che lui, su quella nave, lo spiava. E gli rubava l'anima.

Of course, maybe I'd end up like one of those crazy old people with, like, sixty cats. And one day, the neighbors would complain about the smell, and it would turn out I'd died and the cats had eaten me. Still, it might be nice to have a cat.

Ava's living area is made up of three primary spaces.

Jed! I got stuck in some air pocket with more exits than... I couldn't think of anything famous with a large number of exits I nearly drowned!

Dantes. He became Number 34.

If Stuart is a freak... it is because he has had the superhuman strength not to be defeated by this isolation. It is because he has had the almost unbelievable social adroitness to be able to fit in smoothly with an educated, soft-skinned person like myself and not make me frightened half to death. If Stuart's a freak, I salute freaks.

At this time of day it should have been open and full of fifty fellow smackheads, crackheads, psychotics, epileptics, schizophrenics, self-harmers, beggars, buskers, car thieves, sherry pushers, ciderheads, just-released-that-morning convicts, ex-army, ex-married-men-with-young-children-who'd-discovered-their-wife-in-bed-with-two-members-of-the-university-rowing-team-at-the-same-time.

Homelessness–it's not about not having a home. It's about something being seriously fucking wrong.

There are many sadnesses in the hearts of men who are far away from their countries.

steamships insult the dignity of distance

Everybody was a potential assailant; nobody spoke to one another for fear of being misinterpreted; nobody comforted another, put an arm around a shoulder-to do so would be to invite accusation.

i cuori degli uomini che sono molto lontani dal loro Paese sono pieni di tristezze.

The turtles and birds who lived on the islands were also very friendly, as they hardly ever saw any humans and were always pleased to have some company.

How do you calibrate pain?" asked Jamie. "By cutting out the background pain of the world," answered Isabel. "By cutting all that out, not registering it, and responding only to those painful things that we can do something about. Because otherwise Ã¢â'¬Â¦

There was corruption at every turn, and those who stood for honesty and integrity were more and more vulnerable, more and more isolated amongst the hordes of people who simply had no moral sense. And

I'm very glad that Matthew phoned," he said. "I've been out of touch, you know. It's like that out here. You get caught up in your own life and you forget about family back home.

No sailor could be lonelier than a man standing in the middle of our land, with the miles and miles of blue about him.