Quotes About Isolation

La mattina dopo mi sono stesa sul letto e mi sono infilata il ferro da maglia nel sesso, piano piano. Andavo a tentoni senza trovare il collo dell'utero e un non riuscivo a non fermarmi appena sentivo un po' di dolore. Mi sono resa conto che da sola non ce l'avrei fatta. La mia impotenza mi gettava nella disperazione. Non ero all'altezza. "Niente. Mi sembrava impossibile. Piango e non ne posso più".

Marie-Claude m'a appelée. Jean-Yves est mort vendredi dernier. Il m'arrive de penser que nous sommes mystérieusement liés aux êtres et que leur disparition produit des « ondes ». Vendredi, ce jour où j'ai été si mal, où tout a paru me manquer, a été le jour de la mort de J.-Yves. Je ne l'ai jamais revu depuis juillet 63. Il m'avait confié : « Je n'ai pas d'ami. »

Mon mari est arrivé le soir, bronzé, gêné par un deuil qui n'était pas le sien. Plus que jamais, il a paru déplacé ici. On a dormi dans le seul lit à deux places, celui où mon père était mort.

The strangest thing about jealousy is that it can populate an entire city, the whole world, with a person you have never met.

Entre ce qui arrive dans le monde et ce qui lui arrive à elle, aucun point d'intersection, deux séries parallèles, l'une, abstraite, toute en informations aussitôt oubliées que perçues, l'autre en plans fixes.

Jeudi est loin, si loin, et il n'appelle jamais. Il va falloir rompre, ma vie est trop stupide. Mais pour qui est-ce que je bronze

She rejoins the crowd and watches with her friends, but she feels like an emptied glass - that crestfallen feeling of walking out from a movie theatre in the middle of the day, out from the intimate matinée darkness and the smell of popcorn, which is the smell of heightened colour and sound and story, into the borderless bright of day. Bereft.

I don't like to mix my personal and professional life. Both are different, and I don't mix it.

It was an extremely trying time for me. Best was still intimate with MacLeod and the others about the laboratory. I was out of the picture entirely. MacLeod had taken over the whole physiological investigation. Collip had taken over the biochemistry. Professor Graham and Dr. Campbell had taken over the whole clinical aspect of the investigation.

I'd never met Philip Seymour Hoffman, never knew anyone who knew him, never even read a passably revealing magazine profile of him.

As prevalent as loneliness is, many people don't recognize that people that they know may very well be suffering from loneliness. It's important for many reasons, one of which is that it has a profound impact on health.

Good home-school educational plans have the kids in groups with other children often and consistently. Because common sense dictates that isolating people is never good and home-schooled children really benefit from being in those type of programs.

Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications.

Having buildings, growth models, having great progress, flyovers, and no human being is feeling for human being is a nightmare scenario.

To get to New Orleans you don't pass through anywhere else. That geographical location, being aloof, lets it hold onto the ritual of its own pace more than other places that have to keep up with the progress.

One of the things that Ang brings to all of his projects is his deep sense of being a double exile, an outsider's outsider.

As an author, you spend a lot of time by yourself in a room making clicky noises. It gets pretty insulated. You realize pretty early on in your career that even if this goes well, you could spend all your life in a room alone. Unless you pick projects that are going to get you out doing things, you're not going to actually live your life.

I didn't go to prom - I was homeschooled.

I went to prom with my boyfriend, but after the dance he left me at a party all by myself. It was awful!

I didn't even go to my prom. I didn't have one date in high school.

I wrote 'Echo' a few months after moving out of my sister's apartment in Atlanta. I was 17 and just finished high school. I didn't go to prom and didn't walk the stage. I just dipped.

I didnt go to the high school prom. Couldn't get a date.

Sequestration, sequestation - however you pronounce that word - and gridlock aren't all that bad.

Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.