Quotes About Isolation

But I was so sad that evening: I understood—as I have understood at different points in my life—that the childhood isolation of fear and loneliness would never leave me. My childhood had been a lockdown.

you don't feel jealous of a woman whose husband has been lost. But an unreachability, that's how she'd put it. This plump, kind-natured woman sitting on the couch surrounded by children

I really do not know what I mean, except to say that on some very fundamental level, I feel invisible in the world.

Intimacy became a ghastly thing.

Driving home, Tommy was aware of a sensation like that of a tire becoming flat, as though he had been filled—all his life—with some sustaining air, and it was gone now; he felt, increasingly as he drove, a sense of fear.

Hello, Olive," he said, walking to her. He wanted to put his arms around her, but she had a darkness that seemed to stand beside her like an acquaintance that would not go away. He told her the Thibodeaus were coming for supper. "It's only right," he said. Olive wiped sweat from her upper lip, turned to rip up a clump of onion grass. "Then that's that, Mr. President," she said. "Give your order to the cook.

Siempre estamos solos. Nacemos solos. Morimos solos. ¿Qué más da?

And she learned—freshly, scorchingly—of the privacy of sorrow. It was as though she had been escorted through a door into some large and private club that she had not even known existed. Women who miscarried. Society did not care much for them. It really didn't.

grief is a solitary matter.

We are all in lockdown, all the time. We just don't know it, that's all.

it should never be taken lightly, the essential loneliness of people, that the choices they made to keep themselves from that gaping darkness

Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.

Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.

Mailer's Negro lived in a realm of Nietzschean nihilism, of Being-for-Itself.

German U-boats were poised to impose a blockade of the British Isles that threatened that island nation with starvation as well as defeat.

O let me love my love unto myself alone, And know my knowledge to the world unknown, No witness to the vision call, Beholding, unbeheld of all...

Nothing is worse in prison than the consciousness of one's innocenc; it prevents acclimatizatin and undermines one's morale...

Unlike Dyson, he [Phillipps] walked fast, with his eye on the pavement, absorbed in his thoughts, and oblivious of the life around him; and he could not have told by what streets he had passed, when he suddenly lifted up his eyes and found himself in Leicester Square.

And Lucian felt most keenly that in his case there was a double curse; he was as isolated as Keats, and as inarticulate as his reviewers.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

If I have to be alone I want to be by myself.

I lay in bed and watched moments break into phenomenal particles of panic and could actually see the divine crack of God's ass as he completely turned his back on me.

It was so much easier to be alone, if one could find just the right location.

As I descended into impassable rivers I no longer felt guided by the ferrymen.