Quotes About Isolation

Tal vez su propia soltería la hace inmune al desaliento: a olvidar sueños aún vivos en la ceniza, conservados en soledad y lecturas como pétalos secos entre páginas de un libro.

They will stare. They will stand to the side and watch her be alone.

At home, Tommy tried to avoid looking too long at himself in the mirror, for his reflection stirred in him a feeling of great loneliness and a fear that this loneliness might be permanent.

It's like, when someone asks you how you are and even though you want to say that you feel like shit, that you're miserable, that you cry until you gag and spend most of your time imagining ways to kill yourself, instead you just say, 'Fine, thanks.

My whole body felt weak and hollow, like in one moment it might forget how to move, how to stand, how to breathe.

Como la luna nueva, viviré en todas partes sin compañía.

Houses could feel so different when you had them to yourself.

When I was working on Eye of the Beholder, I played a character who is so aloof that my whole lifestyle became very aloof. If someone knocked on my door, there was a part of me that went into a rage, because I wanted to be isolated and alone.

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

I can't watch scary movies right now, because living on my own, it kind of freaks me out.

That was one of the things that always happened to me after long periods of solitary confinement: i would forget how to talk.

One of the worst cases is that of ASSATA SHAKUR, who spent over twenty months in solitary confinement in two separate men's prisons subject to conditions totally unbefitting any prisoner.

That's why political work and organizing are so important. Unless you are addressing the issues people are concerned about and contributing positive direction, they'll never support you. The first thing the enemy tries to do is isolate revolutionaries from the masses of people, making us horrible and hideous monsters so that our people will hate us.

Television is an anesthetic for the pain of the modern world.

They sat behind a screen, and grunted and wheezed over sheets of brown paper that looked as if ink-dipped and intoxicated spiders had danced across them.

You'll understand one day how murderous, how suicidal, individual isolation is. You'll cry then, suffocated by our culture's cannibal loving." He

There were vast spaces in which his spirit could reach out, touching this, possessing that, of a million crowding sensations, but gradually at first, then rapidly, he had found himself reaching out to ever-receding mirages, alone in a void. He

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

I'm living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there's a world up there, a sunlit quick world where time runs like dry sand through an hourglass, but down here, where I am, air and sound and time and feeling are thick and dense.

I go to sleep alone, and wake up alone. I take walks. I work until I'm tired. I watch the wind play with the trash that's been under the snow all winter. Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by abscence?

It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.

if you are afraid of loneliness, don't get married

Ik zoek de mensen zolang ze vreemden zijn; ik ontvlucht ze zodra ze dat niet meer zijn.