Quotes About Isolation

It was terrible to think that he was in this city, possibly very nearby, but I couldn't see him or talk to him because he didn't love me. I couldn't be with him for one minute, not even for the weird leftover hours that nobody else wanted, like from one to three a.m. on a Wednesday.

I know that's the cliché about America: 'Oh, it's so impersonal! Oh, I feel like a number!' That's not what I mean. I'm not saying the Hungarian way is better. In general, I think isolation is a good thing. With most people I'm so thankful not to be really close to them. In Hungary they would immediately start to tell you all this shit.

Senin için, benim için ol­duÄŸundan daha zormuÅŸ gibi geldi hep." "Neden benim için daha zor olsun?" "Çünkü sen yaln?zs?n.

I just can't imagine it. I can't imagine you on the other side of the world, at a pay phone on the street.

There are no sides in suicide.

Proximity to reality induces feelings of emptiness, horror and depression. Do not approach it alone.

Contemplation and writing demand solitude, which leads to a sorry feeling of isolation and detachment. Writers try to call their loneliness genius, and the world believes them most of the time.

The hermit is he who needs a friend, and in the absence of a community has befriended himself.

But where can you go and truly not be found? Where can anyone go anymore?

You speak so many bloody languages, and you never want to talk.

NO ROADS, NOT a single one, lead to the place where we had gotten ourselves.

If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely,

The need to create a citadel in which to hide from the world is characteristic of people with a schizoid disposition

In solitude What happiness? Who can enjoy alone, Or all enjoying what contentment find?' Milton

No man ever will unfold the capacities of his own intellect who does not at least checker his life with solitude.' De Quincey

As we have seen, many creative activities are predominantly solitary. They are concerned with self-realization and self-development in isolation, or with finding some coherent pattern in life. The degree to which these creative activities take priority in the life of an individual varies with his personality and talents. Everyone needs some human relationships; but everyone also needs some kind of fulfilment which is relevant to himself alone.

The desire for solitude as a means of escape from the pressure of ordinary life and as a way of renewal is vividly illustrated by Admiral Byrd's account of manning an advanced weather base in the Antarctic during the winter of 1934. He insisted on doing this alone.

On the other hand, less rigorous conditions of imprisonment have sometimes proved fruitful. Being cut off from the distractions of ordinary life encourages the prisoner with creative potential to call upon the resources of his imagination. As we shall see, a variety of authors have begun writing in prison, where this has been allowed; or have passed through periods of spiritual and mental turmoil which have later found expression in their works.

My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness.

There was no such thing as a private life, all lives were public.

Where are the people?" resumed the little prince at last. It's a little lonely in the desert…" It is lonely when you're among people, too," said the snake.

I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams.

Destroy yourselves, you who are desperate, and you who are tortured in body and soul, abandon all hope. There is no more solace for you in this world. The world lives off your rotting flesh.

In the wake of the breakup I was miserable, no real money, no close friends. I was living in a house in the canyons, house-sitting for an actor I knew. Actually, I was house-sitting for an actor who was house-sitting for an actor. I had nothing going on.