Quotes About Isolation

Also, she doesn't want to hear anyone else's inspiring story about a sister-in-law who went through exactly the same thing and is now running ultramarathons. Celeste doesn't mean to be ungenerous in her thoughts, but she has come to the chilling conclusion that we are all alone in our bodies. Irrefutably, immutably alone. And hence, no one's story offers hope.

She hangs up just as a text from Sofia comes in. Are you on the phone with Isaac? A chill rolls up Caroline's spine. The loneliest place in the world, she realizes, is between two other people.

she has come to the chilling conclusion that we are all alone in our bodies.

but she has come to the chilling conclusion that we are all alone in our bodies. Irrefutably, immutably alone.

It was just a movie, but what you learned when you lived on an island was, you never knew.

Phones," he says to Andrea. "They'll be the death of civilization.

days in the dark by myself. We're engaged

There is no bridge! Nantucket Island is thirty miles out to sea and therefore is accessible only by boat or plane. There are direct flights from New York (JFK), Newark, Washington, DC, and certain other cities in the summer on JetBlue, United, American, and Delta. Cape Air runs a nine-seat Cessna from Boston and JFK year-round. (Warning: these Cessnas are not for the faint of heart, as per the scene in Golden Girl!)

Sea Wife, by Amity Gaige.

Lighthouses are not just stone, brick, metal, and glass. There's a human story at every lighthouse; that's the story I want to tell.

Avoid the reeking herd, Shun the polluted flock, Live like that stoic bird, The eagle of the rock.

No, we have no rural delivery. It is two miles to the office, but I go whenever I like. It is really the jolliest kind of fun to gallop down. We are sixty miles from the railroad, but when we want anything we send by the mail-carrier for it, only there is nothing to get.

Io a volte non so, quando quest'uomo è solo - chiuso al buio in una stanza, steso su un letto, uomo al mondo lui solo - io quasi non so s'io non sono, invece del suo scrittore, lui stesso.

Prof stood apart from his family.

MEILIN WAS SURROUNDED BY DEPRESSED RATS.

I don't know. I'm scared that out there, someday I'll look around and realize forty years have passed and no one can see me. That I'm gone.

On bad days, I could feel the whole year swinging underneath me like a dead thing.

I'm scared that out there, someday I'll look around and realize forty years have passed and no one can see me. That I'm gone.

I couldn't be here anymore. I couldn't be in me. But I couldn't be anywhere else, either. I had nowhere else to go.

A single girl who needs nobody makes people uncomfortable, my mom is right in this, appearance is everything, and appearing to have no one is like swimming alone in the middle of the ocean with a flesh wound.

She didn't know if Evie had always been emotionally promiscuous or if it was the grief talking. It was like she was infected by sadness, and as a carrier she made everyone around her sad. Which seemed reckless and a little selfish to Paige. When you're contagious you quarantine yourself. Evie should stay inside until the grief ran its course. Stay away from other people, children, anyone whose psychological immune system might be compromised.

To be on a pedestal is to be in a corner.

I have done most of my talking by post of late years--as people shut up in dungeons take up with scrawling mottoes on the walls.

They are weeping in the playtime of the others, In the country of the free.