Quotes About Isolation

Britannia's big enough to count, but remote enough not to matter.

The truth is, in winter, the earth rejects us.

It made me sad when I caught myself pretending that everybody out there in cyberspace cared about what I thought, when really nobody gives a shit. And when I multiplied that sad feeling by all the millions of people in their lonely little rooms, furiously writing and posting to their lonely little pages that nobody has time to read because they're all so busy writing and posting, it kind of broke my heart.

Is this what it sounds like, going deaf?

The rest of the time Olivia was alone in her big house with all the doors and windows shut to keep out the heat and dust.

There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematicians that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one Ã¢â'¬Â¦

No relatives, no friends, nobody. Doesn't that seem strange to you? Someone disappears and no one gives a damn?

How long can you wait, alone in the dark? How long can you put off living until all your unfinished business is resolved?

People have all sorts of expectations which you can't meet. Me, I'm so reclusive I stay away from such things as much as I can. I never go anywhere.

All Americans have something lonely about them. I don't know what the reason might be, except maybe that they're all descended from immigrants.

People were infected with the concept that happiness was something outside themselves, and a new and powerful form of loneliness was born.

In heated rooms, he often felt the outlines of his body, the border between him and the external world, grow disturbingly fuzzy.

They don't make coats for this kind of cold

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I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere.

It was the face of a human being who'd been constructed exclusively of wounds. Not time or history or ambition, nothing but wounds. The face of a person who could probably kill someone without feeling anything whatsoever.

TV sounds are all the same; there's no difference between the sound of the wind in Northern Ireland and the wind on a Polynesian island.

People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

The arctic loneliness of age.

I can remember when it wasn't so lonely around here. I guess loneliness makes you remember the good times.

And sometimes it is better to solemnly retreat into solitude than to be gravely misunderstood.

All my life I have generally avoided my neighbors. If I happen to encounter one of them I immediately move somewhere else.

?nsanlara ne kadar çok muhtaç olursam onlardan kaçmak ihtiyac?m da o kadar art?yordu.

?nsanlar birbirlerini tan?man?n ne kadar güç oldu?unu bildikleri için bu zahmetli i?e te?ebbüs etmektense, körler gibi rastgele dola?may? ve ancak çarp??t?kça birbirlerinin mevcudiyetinden haberdar olmay? tercih ediyor.