Quotes About Isolation

It is better to be alone than in bad company

The circumstances of my life are paralyzing.

We pedaled rapidly, without laughing or speaking, peculiarly satisfied with our mutual presence, akin to one another in the common isolation of lewdness, weariness, and absurdity.

Ne kimseyi görme, ne konuÅŸma, düÅŸünme, d??ar? ç?kma, yerinden k?m?ldama isteÄŸi duyuyorsun.

Te t'es arrêté à parler et seul le silence t'a répondu. Mais ces mots, ces milliers, ces millions de mots qui se sont arrêtés dans ta gorge, les mots sans suite, les cris de joie, les mots d'amour, les rires idiots, quand donc les retrouveras-tu? Maintenant tu vis dans le terreur du silence. Mais n'es-tu pas le plus silencieux de tous?

You are alone. You learn how to walk like a man alone. To stroll, to dawdle. To see without looking, to look without seeing. You learn the art of transparency, immobility, inexistence.You learn how to be a shadow and how to look at men as if they were stones.

Quelque chose se cassait, quelque chose s'est cassé. Tu ne te sens plus - comment dire? - soutenu : quelque chose qui, qui, te semblait-il, te semble-t-il, t'as jusqu'alors réconforté, t'a tenu chaud au coeur, le sentiment de ton existence, de ton importance presque, l'impression d'adhérer, de baigner dans le monde, se met à te faire défaut.

Is it not strange how quickly one can become detached from everything? How empty life appears when one is close to death!

The most remarkable thing was that Maigret already believed him! It was as if he were under a spell in this silent house where nothing could be heard but the crackling of the logs and where, during the silences, you were aware of the distant murmur of the sea.

Outside, people were walking quickly, their hands in their pockets, their faces stiff with cold, all with their own little affairs, their own little concerns in their heads, all with their personal dramas, their need to do something.

I could never fancy any other female. Never shall! That's why you see me now, a lonely man, with no one to care for, and no one to care a straw for me!' As he presented the appearance of a comfortable hedonist, Kit was bereft of words.

As far as the eye could see, black rocks broke through the waves and tore the surf to shreds of white.

I should have known that people can sometimes come close enough to discover that they are strangers.

Many a housewife staring at the back of her husband's newspaper, or listening to his breathing in bed is lonelier than any spinster in a rented room.

Those miserable women who blame the men who let them down for their misery and isolation enact every day the initial mistake of sacrificing their personal responsibility for themselves.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate. Many a housewife staring at the back of her husband's newspaper, or listening to his breathing in bed is lonelier than any spinster in a rented room.

None of the Aldens knew that they were the first real callers Miss Gray had had for many years.

Out west on a ranch. The nearest town is Centerville," Mr. Alden said. He looked very sad. "Jane is old, and she is a very cross woman. The neighbor who stays with her is going to leave. Nobody will stay with Jane because she is so hard to get along with. She won't leave the ranch, and yet I can't let her stay there all alone.

It is very easy to love alone.

One of the things that I have liked all these years is to be surrounded by people who know no english. It has left me more intensely alone with my eyes and my english. I do not know if it would have been possible to have english be so all in all to me otherwise. And they none of them could read a word I wrote, most of them did not even know that I did write. No, I like living with so very many people and being all alone with english and myself.

J'aime vivre au milieu de tant de gens et être si seule avec ma langue et moi-même.

He watched the children in the small playground, running, shouting, laughing, chasing each other. They were so full of life and energy, and he felt suddenly very lonely.

When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.

I worked as a janitor in Canada for nine months. It's during that time when I experienced extreme homesickness.