Quotes About Isolation

No one can train you to be famous. How do you deal with the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy? You have to be disciplined.

I have become convinced that the more wealth a country accumulates, the more isolated and lonely its people become. The loneliest are usually the children and the elderly. Children learn what they live, and isolation in the 'village' is one of the most destructive messages we daily write on the tablets of their hearts.

When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life.

I finally faced the fact that it isn`t a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.

I have no idea what depression even was until I was in my twenties, once I was pretty sure that I had it, I suffered with it for another fifteen years, because I was ashamed, I was embarrassed, and I was afraid.

The deserts in which I have travelled had been blanks in time as well as space. They had no intelligible history, the nomads who inhabited them had no known past.

Her insan?n içsel bir biçimde yaln?z oldu?undan, bu yaln?zl???n kötü bir ?ey olmad???ndan ve bu konuyu konu?mak istemedi?imden, o zaman da susuyorum. Asl?nda bo? laftan ba?ka bir ?ey de?il ama Traudel için bo? laf de?il. Birçok insan?n içsel yaln?zl???n? inatla inkar etti?ini biliyorum. Traudel de bunlardan biri.

?nsan hastal?klar? ile yaln?zd?r ve hastal?klar? ile yaln?z kal?r.

Yaln?zl?k normal de birdenbire ortaya ç?kmas? öyle i?renç ki.

Üzüntümle öylesine kayna?m???m ki" diyorum, "böylesine sarma? dola? bir karde?lik hakk?nda konu?maya al???k de?ilim

Das Angenehme an meinem Grauen ist, dass sich meine Innenwelt mehr und mehr vor die Außenwelt schiebt und dass mich unter dem Eindruck dieser Verschiebung die Außenwelt immer weniger interessiert. Es durchflutet mich ein angenehmes Gefühl des Entkommenseins.

I felt as lonely and desolate as a man suddenly fallen from the clouds into an unknown town on the Antarctic Continent built of ice and inhabited by Penguins. Who are these people? I asked myself irritably.

Ci separammo nell'età della vita in cui si ha meno tempo per il prossimo. L'odierna facilità degli scambi epistolari, in questo, non aiuta: chi scrive più lettere, nell'era della cartolina? Vedo già tutta la seconda metà del diciottesimo secolo e buon terzo del diciannovesimo scuotere la testa.

Seninle ayn? masaya oturan ya da seninle ayn? evde ya?ayan birinin herhangi bir büyük i? ba?araca??na inanamazs?n. Senin yak?n çevrende, küçük adam, dü?ünmek çok güçtür; insan ancak sana dair dü?ünür, seninle birlikte de?il. Çünkü büyük dü?ünceleri, geni? kapsaml? dü?ünceleri g?rtlaklars?n sen.

I'm cold, Religiously cold.

I have saved no one but myself and now I watch for the other universe to unravel in my skull, for the sky to become my own skin and fill with stars.

I think of animals in cages, pressed close against each other.

I must be dead for there is nothing but blue snow and the furious silence of a gunshot.

A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.

In another experiment in the series, participants were told that they would shortly have a get-acquainted conversation with another person and were asked to set up two chairs while the experimenter left to retrieve that person. Participants primed by money chose to stay much farther apart than their nonprimed peers (118 vs. 80 centimeters). Money-primed undergraduates also showed a greater preference for being alone.

In einer anderen Nacht kamen ihm plötzlich die Wissenschaft, seine Arbeit, sein gesamtes Leben fremd und überflüssig vor, weil er keinen Freund hatte und außer seiner Mutter niemanden, dem er etwas bedeutete. Aber auch das ging, wie alles, vorüber.

I don't know what's worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you've always wanted to be, and feel alone.

Why am I always looking at life through a window?

Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here.