Quotes About Isolation

All those wasted and squandered years when I did nothing but go around looking inside myself until I ended up alone even though I was surrounded by people. But I paid attention only to what was happenstance about them - not their true selves.

There was nothing on yet except for the tobacco reports, so I snapped the radio back off and tried to figure out where to go.

I have my books And my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor, Hiding in my room, safe within my womb. I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island.

Often they can help to entrench poverty by encouraging people in remote communities empty of employment to do little but drink, fester and wait for the next handout from their relative abroad.

Mersenne met with the other mathematicians, but he was saddened by their reluctance to talk to him or to each other.

his endearment fell on deaf ears like a stone dropping into an empty well.

Because we are separated everything separates us, even our efforts to join each other.

I was very fond of Lagneau's phrase: "I have no comfort but in my absolute despair.

The whole world was nothing but an exile with no hope of a return.

Alone: for the first time I understood the terrible significance of that word. Alone without a witness, without anyone to speak to, without refuge. The breath in my body, the blood in my veins, all this hurly-burly in my head existed for nobody.

The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those last days... and yet we were profoundly separated from her.

Insects were scurrying about in the shade cast by the grass, and the lawn was a huge monotonous forest of thousands of little green blades, all equal, all alike, hiding the world from each other. Anguished, she thought, I don't want to be just another blade of grass.

But the answer is obvious: it is easy to believe one is sovereign when alone, to believe oneself strong when carefully refusing to bear any burden.

insano?lunun mutsuzlu?u tek bir ?eyden geliyor:bir odada oturup kalmay? bilmemekten!

Uno no puede responder con nada a la ausencia.

There's something inside me, something as hard as an iron bar, that crushes my will and stops every flicker of enthusiasm or desire. I strip my heart bare, and have a soul as black as any pitch. The thought that mine is not an isolated case offers me no consolation.

Ce n'est donc pas l'amitié qui brisera la solitude où l'homme s'est enfermé; il n'est jamais possible à un individu de partager les joies et les peines d'un autre, ni même de les comprendre. Les êtres sont impénétrables, les consciences sont incommunicables; dans l'amour, l'amitié, dans toutes les affections, chacun reste pour l'autre un mystérieux étranger.

Ça ne rapproche pas, le téléphone, ça confirme les distances.

Sí yo mismo no fuera sino una cosa, nada en efecto me concerniría; si me encierro en mí mismo, el otro está también cerrado para mí; la existencia inerte de las cosas es separación y soledad.

I would sometimes tell myself, fearfully but proudly, that I was mad: it's a very short step between utter loneliness and madness.

The telephone- it is not a thing that brings people nearer: it underlines remoteness. You are not together as you are in a conversation, for you do not see one another. You are not alone as you are in front of a piece of paper that allows you to talk inwardly while you are addressing the other- to seek out and find the truth.

I feel that it is necessary and ordained that I should be alone, a stranger and an exile in relation to every human circle, without exception.

Preserve your solitude.

Society is the cave. The way out is solitude.