Quotes About Isolation

wondering how she could be in a house full of people and also in the loneliest place on earth.

found it difficult to make friends when I didn't trust anyone I met. And

across from Legal, hadn't been invited to a dinner. Scott Mackey, the

Tenía la mirada vacía de alguien que siempre se encontraba apartado del mundo que lo rodeaba. A veces me preguntaba si era un mecanismo de defensa, si la única manera de sobrellevar esa vida era fingir que no era a él a quien le ocurría todo eso.

I would honestly have changed my flight, perhaps even disappeared until I could make sure that there was between us a whole continent, not just a few impossible inches.

I don't think I had ever felt lonelier in my life.

with the music turned up loud so that I didn't have to be alone with my thoughts.

The city feels as alien as to me as it always has. But, then, everywhere does, these days.

Around me a million people are living, breathing, eating, arguing. A million lives completely divorced from mine. It is a strange sort of peace. The

Where once it had offered her a welcome sense of freedom, now the vast expanses seemed only to emphasize her sense of isolation.

I hadn't thought that as well as the obvious fears about money, and your future, losing your job would make you feel inadequate, and a bit useless. That it would be harder to get up in the morning than when you were rudely shocked into consciousness by the alarm. That you might miss the people you worked with, no matter how little you had in common with them. Or even that you might find yourself searching for familiar faces as you walked the high street.

Tú, Clark -se miró las manos-. eres la única persona con la que siento que pudo hablar desde que acabé en esta maldita silla.

tracksuit bottoms," said William. That day I didn't want to speak. I was only there because I couldn't face the silence of my little flat. I had a sudden, sneaking

financial and energy-sapping struggle, was that being a parent on your own when you were totally out of your depth was actually the loneliest place on earth.

Dažk?rt š?ita, ka m?s visi peldam bezgal?g? skumju j?r?, c?t?gi sl?pjot no citiem, ka vi??i jau š??cas p?ri galvai un ?dens sme?as mut?.

She cries because she is drunk and in her flat and there are few advantages to living on your own except being able to sob uninhibitedly at will

Alice sat on the swing seat, listening to the crickets and wondering how she could be in a house full of people and also in the loneliest place on earth.

Sometimes she wondered how it were possible to be so far from the sea and still feel as if she were drowning.

Lo besé, respirando el aroma de su piel, sintiendo su suave pelo bajo los dedos y cuando me devolvió el beso todo desapareció y quedamos únicamente Will y yo, en una isla en medio de ninguna parte, bajo miles de estrellas titilantes.

I could easily become one of those people who so crave human contact that they talk inappropriately to other passengers on trains or spend ten minutes picking things in a shop so they can chat to the assistant. I

I felt, briefly, on the edge of tears. I had looked forward to an evening full of giggling children, delicious food, and laughter. Instead I was going to be a shadow again, a silent prop in an icy room.

slept at all. I didn't want to think how it would feel, to lie trapped in a bed you couldn't get out of with only dark thoughts to keep you company through the small hours.

Sometimes I feel I could stay in the woods for ever.' He nodded. 'I often think,' he said, 'that when you're out here at daybreak you can pretend you're the only person in the world.

Sometimes I felt as if we were all wading around in grief, reluctant to admit to others how far we were wading or drowning.