Quotes About Isolation

Though we longed not to be lonely, we also feared the pain it would take us to be brought out of our lonely states. And after that fear, could we be guaranteed that we would never be returned to a state of loneliness again? We could not.

Per questo, nel giorno della maniglia perduta, indugiavo con la faccia accostata alla finestra rotta, fantasticando su tutta quella gente dall'altro lato dei cumuli, chiedendomi se sarei mai riuscito a spingermi fino alla città laggiù, Forlichingham, a Londra, immaginando che ci fosse qualcuno dietro tutta quella gente, qualcuno che potesse apprezzarmi. «C'è qualcuno,» sussurrai, «c'è qualcuno lì? Chi sei? Come sei fatto?»

We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding on technicolor prairies and rivers.

The usual consolations of life, friendship and sex included, appealed to Newton hardly at all. Art, literature, and music had scarcely more allure. He dismissed the classical sculptures in the Earl of Pembroke's renowned collection as "stone dolls." He waved poetry aside as "a kind of ingenious nonsense." He rejected opera after a single encounter. "The first Act I heard with pleasure, the 2d stretch'd my patience, at the 3d I ran away.

In space no one can hear you scream.

Continent isolated.

Sometimes I feel like a motherless child,A long ways from home,A long ways from home.

Mademoiselle from Armenteers, Hasn't been kissed in forty years, Hinky dinky, parley-voo.

I'm not anti-social. I'm pro-solitude.

Only Robinson Crusoe had everything done by Friday.

My right hand hasn't seen my left hand in thirty years.

Home is where you can say anything you like cause nobody listens to you anyway.

I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

I wish I were a white crayon, that way no one could use me.

The trouble with living alone is that it's always your turn to do the dishes.

The potter's field, to bury strangers in.

You're living in your own private Idaho.

He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.

I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.

As a lodge in a garden of cucumbers.

For I must to the greenwood go,Alone, a banished man.

The easiest way to keep a secret is without help.

It's frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody bothers to ask you the questions.

I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.