Quotes About Isolation

When you are small, if you reach out, and nobody takes your hand, you stop reaching out, and reach inside, instead. — Amanda Eyre Ward, How to Be Lost . (Ballantine Books; Reprint edition August 30, 2005)

This is only a record of broken and apparently unrelated memories, some of them as distinct and sequent as brilliant beads upon a thread, others remote and strange, having the character of crimson dreams with interspaces blank and black -- witch-fires glowing still and red in a great desolation.

All that day he travelled, laying his course by the rounding sun. The forest seemed interminable; nowhere did he discover a break in it, not even a woodman's road. He had not known that he lived in so wild a region. There was something uncanny in the revelation.

ALONE, adj. In bad company.

A man is like a tree: in a forest of his fellows he will grow as straight as his generic and individual nature permits; alone in the open, he yields to the deforming stresses and tortions that environ him.

By the time I found sleep that night, back in the Hawk's Keep, my throat was tight with too many tears unshed, screams unuttered and prayers whose words I could never seem to find.

There was no place more solitary than a dark room, with its murky light and fetid closeness.

Thoughts, books, ideas, words – if anything, they make you more alone, because they destroy whatever instinctive loyalties you may once have possessed.

I spent half my childhood in the shadows. Hiding from my father or my brother. Creeping from a place of solitude to another. Seeing while unseen, and pretending I was a part of what I saw. Making up a life where I wasn't an outcast.

He remembered other times and other campfires, when he had not been alone.

Chief without soldiers is just a very lonely man in a big bloody field

I think I've had quite enough of other people's happiness.

The only thing worse than a city full of people is a city with no people at all.

The one thing she hated worse than being fussed over was being ignored.

I tried to get through to my brother, Mike, on the Moon, but the phone company wouldn't let me place the call until I had signed a contract and posted a $25,000 bond.

This world was no place for anyone with access to another.

Prison didn't frighten him especially. He had a lot of fans in there.

The first few days, the worst thing he seen Harold do was take a dump and use the pages from one of the camp library books for toilet paper. Renée wined. "It turned out to be The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter . Our only copy. If I had known what he was going to do with it, I would've given him a copy of Atlas Shrugged .

I was less a social butterfly than a social death's-head moth.

She was sitting on the floor, beneath the phone, with her arms wrapped around her, when Lou found her. "You been, like, sitting out here for a while," he said. "Do you want me to bring you a blanket or a dead tauntaun or something?

He'd possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wondered how something like Columbine could happen. Jude wondered why it didn't happen more often.

Maybe they were afraid of being quarantined. The idea of being kept from your loved ones is scarier than the sickness for a lot of people. No one wants to die alone.

Give a man a choice between reality and loneliness or fantasy and community, he'll pick having friends every time.

In truth, though, she could not bear the idea of having a phone on her all the time, wherever she went. Could not be at ease knowing she might get an urgent call from Christmasland, some dead kid on the line: Hey, Ms. McQueen, did you miss us?!?