Quotes About Isolation

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self." MAY SARTON

Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone... truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else.

Their isolation was communal," he wrote. "They could escape neither their loneliness nor each other.

The world was doing its best to ignore the fact that I was a writer.

I mention Jackie mostly because I want to be assured that I inhabit the same universe as other people; that I am not alone on a distant shore. Jackie glues me to this world—most effectively when I can find a way to mention her name or her attributes, when I can find a pretext, however frail, to introduce her into a conversation, even at the risk of non sequitur, bathos, or incoherence.

The solitary operatic feast, the banquet for one, onanism through the ear: taking an evening out of my life to listen to Simon Boccanegra, I feel I am locked in the bathroom eating a quart of ice cream, that I have lost all my friends, that I am committing some violently antisocial act, like wearing lipstick to school.

Our culture confuses the pain of isolation with some impossible ideal of "self-sufficiency," and then celebrates it.

While we played, Meiying often sat by herself on the bench, huddled against the chill, looking at the library books on her lap, the pages glowing under the street lamp. The pages would sometimes turn in the wind, but she did not notice.

All of a sudden I didn't fit in anywhere. Not at school, not at home...and every time I turned around, another person I'd known forever felt like a stranger to me. Even I felt like a stranger to me.

People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, because we have lost each other.

Emma and her stupid allergies. On Peopleportal, she's just Carley Theresa.

It's sad when the things you continue to do make people question whether you have dementia. They're not inside my brain to hear or see the hallucinations. Would it make them feel better to see me on a foggy day, the type where I curl up under my duvet and hide away from the world? Would that make the disease fit better into the pigeonhole they've allocated it?

her ankles, because they all knew that Fred needed to see Nim to make him as brave and strong as he could be.

This is when we lost our humanity. I'd open my phone and look at my contacts and only one or two were still alive.

Hopelessness is seeing someone else who has been there for eight months and hasn't been asked a single question and is just begging to be convicted and executed already.

In the streets you saw people frozen in their cars, suffocated to death.

No. But I think maybe I, too, know what it means to be alone. To be misjudged.

As he puttered about outside, he talked to himself. He was his only company, so he never thought it odd. "I really should get a dog." "Should I make chili for dinner? Or turkey soup?" "Hmm. I don't smell snow and

The human desire to not be alone in the world is powerful. More powerful, perhaps, than reason or conscience or fear.

Without an engine, Beebe's bathysphere dangled helplessly from the topside support ship like a ball of yarn suspended from knitting needles.

Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.

Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle

Coffee connects me to the world, wine disconnects me".

Loud sound does not bother the deaf."