Quotes About Isolation

being a parent on your own when you were totally out of your depth was actually the loneliest place on earth.

For the first time I felt overwhelmed, crushed by the knowledge that I was alone in a city that no longer welcomed me.

It is one thing to prefer to be solitary when you know that you are part of a tribe. It is another entirely to be truly all alone.

It's easy to avoid suffering and easier to feel disconnected from the people experiencing

I am not mad here, but clear and calm. I am not transformed, but allowed to be wholly myself.I am isolated, but have never felt more connected to people. I am not imprisoned, but free. I am not cut off from my family and my roots, but am brought back to them. I am not living alone with dogs, but permitting my dogs to lead me somewhere I need to go, and it has been a great trip. We have more distance to travel together, I'm sure, before we are through.

It's interesting that my neighbor Irv, who saw dogs so differently, knew all the kids and people on the block and could recite the family history of each house until about a decade ago. Now few of our neighbors can name more than a handful of people who live on the street. They have little to do with local government, and vote sporadically, at best. In the evenings and on weekends, they go their own ways. Their kids are repeatedly warned about talking to people they don't know.

It is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the things that mean so much to me that I have learned to contain myself. It is enough that I am surrounded with beauty...

The sea's only gifts are harsh blows, and occasionally the chance to feel strong. Now I don't know much about the sea, but I do know that that's the way it is here. And I also know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong. To measure yourself at least once. To find yourself at least once in the most ancient of human conditions. Facing the blind death stone alone, with nothing to help you but your hands and your own head.

Standing close to each other, intimately close, blind to anyone else, their world reduced for the moment to this self-enclosed space of anger and resentment and shame.

Better to follow this case than to sit at home alone with only my thoughts, memories, and regrets. My mind was a bad neighborhood. I didn't want to wander around there alone. "If

why are we so alone?

Witchcraft separates and isolates. Beware of separation through isolation. Isolation is a solid weapon of witchcraft

Witchcraft operates best in a whirlwind that gets everyone on edge, stirred up and at each other's throats. [...] People operating in witchcraft are masters at pitting people against one another in order to separate and isolate them.

Om han skriker uten at noen hører det - har han da skreket?

Namo ?jau p?s?ias , ži?r?damas, galvodamas. Aš steb?jausi savimi, kaip aš toks vienas gal?jau išaugti, kad man vis? šit? žmoni? ir viso šito gyvenimo nereikia. Ta?iau kartu taip skaudžiai ilg?jausi žmogaus. Nedaug - tik vieno, vieno vienintelio man užtekt?.

If Hillary was a candidate often isolated from her formal campaign—and she was—Abedin was the croc-filled moat encircling her. The

How terrible to be alcoholic. You just want to quietly soothe and maybe poison yourself, but you end up poisoning those around you as well, like trying to commit suicide with a gas oven and unwittingly murdering your neighbors.

For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.

To paraphrase Maurice Blanchot, it [24/7] is both of and after the disaster, characterized by the empty sky, in which no star or sign is visible, in which one's bearings are lost and orientation is impossible. p.17

The first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone.

But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone.

But nothing disturbs the feeling of specialness like the presence of other human beings feeling identically special.

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.

When he heard his father call out for Abel and he saw his borther go forth, it made him feel like he was nothing. He couldn't even say that he felt like Cain anymore. One could not feel like Cain because it had no flavor. Cain was the absence of flavor. Cain was like saliva or a Wednesday.