Quotes About Isolation

Anxiety is depression's good friend, and sometimes they party together

And I see that not touching for so long was a drive to the beach with the windows rolled up so the waves feel that much colder.

Some of us are silent sufferers of a noisy disease.

When I read a magazine, I feel connected to the world, in on everything. When I read a book, I feel removed from the world, isolated, as if I've slipped off into a soundproof booth. It is the same with listening to the radio (connected) versus listening to a CD (removed). Both fill a certain need, balance the other out. There's the getting away, and then there's the coming back.

We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing, unheard and not hearing, unknown by others.

For all these years I kept my mouth closed so selfish desires would not fall out. And because I remained quiet for so long now my daughter does not hear me... All these years I kept my true nature hidden, running along like a small shadow so nobody could catch me. And because I moved so secretly now my daughter does not see me... We are lost, she and I, unseen and not seeing; unheard and not hearing, unknown by others.

I saw a girl complaining that the pain of not being seen was unbearable... Now I have perfect understanding. I have already experienced the worst. After this, there is no worse possible thing.

we were like two people standing apart on separate mountain peaks, recklessly leaning forward to throw stones at one another, unaware of the dangerous chasm that separated us.

I read to escape to a more interesting world, not to be locked up in a sweltering prison and find myself vicariously standing among people who are tortured beyond the limits of sanity.

And all that talk about the breakup being good for us- who am I trying to fool? I'm cut loose, untethered, not belonging to anything or anybody.

After a while, I hurt so much I didn't feel any difference.

But you can't stay in the dark for so long. Something inside of you starts to fade and you become like a starving person, crazy-hungry for light.

Jane Eyre taught me that loneliness had more to do with being misunderstood than being alone.

By then I didn't have enough feeling left in my body to cry.

I now lived in an invisible place made of my own dwindling breath, and because no one else could see it, they could not yank me out of it.

Las personas libres jamás podrán concebir lo que los libros significan para quienes vivimos encerrados.

Tengo la sensación de ser un pájaro enjaulado, al que han arrancado las alas violentamente, y en la más absoluta penumbra, choca contra los barrotes de su estrecha jaula, al querer volar.

El ser humano puede sentirse solo a pesar del amor de muchos, porque para nadie es realmente el más querido.

Cuando se fijan tanto en mi, primero me pongo arisca, luego triste y al final termino volteando mi corazón, con el lado malo hacia fuera, y el bueno hacia dentro buscando siempre la manera de ser como de verdad me gustaría ser y como podría ser... si no hubiera otra gente en este mundo

I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness.

Instead of answering her as soon as he saw her hair grow electric, her face more vivid, her eyes like lightning, her body restless and jerky like a racehorse's, he retired behind this wall of objective understanding, this gentle testing and acceptance of her, just as one watches an animal in the zoo and smiles at his antics, but is not drawn into this mood. It was this which left Lilith in a state of isolation - indeed, like a wild animal in an absolute desert.

I have raged at the wall growing between myself and others. I expect intuitive, miraculous understanding, or else I'm disillusioned and don't want to struggle to make things clear.

Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary beyond which words cannot serve, and at such moments there is nothing left for them but to bark.

I have such a fear of finding another like myself, and such a desire to find one. I am so utterly lonely, but I also have such a fear that my isolation be broken through, and I no longer be the head and ruler of my universe.