Quotes About Isolation

We were raised without movies, theater or music. We had only nature, the hills, the trees. When I got on the set of 'Manon ' I wasn't star-struck because I didn't know what a star was.

I've never had siblings, I didn't grow up in a big family it was just me and my single mom. And hectic family dysfunction was actually something that I craved.

I don't like people," said Velvet. "... I only like horses.

And now, finished with that puzzling mixture of insane intimacy and isolation which is notoriety, Velvet was able to get on quietly to her next adventures.

I know I feel like Gulliver sometimes, weighed down by little men. There are so many people in this house, I'm a queen bee, with every muscle dragging. I'm the heart of a cluster, black, dripping, sucking, hanging.

La soledad más absoluta se encuentra en medio de las multitudes más inmensas

Parecía resignado a la soledad, pero su herida seguía abierta, si bien ahora era una hemorragia interna.

Nunca tuve suerte con las mujeres, soporto con resignación una penosa joroba, todos mis familiares más cercanos han muerto, soy un pobre solitario que trabaja en una oficina pavorosa. Por lo demás, soy feliz. »

Ser incomprendidos nos protege».

Pero pronto se pregunta por qué se estará esforzando en imaginar tanto si ya nadie, absolutamente nadie, le ve.

No sabe que le está hablando, sin saberlo, a su destino marcado por la soledad. Porque a su alrededor ha comenzado a tomar posiciones la niebla y en realidad ya hace rato que ni la última sombra del mundo está interesada en acecharle.

When one spends a long time alone in the Frankfurt airport, one goes crazy at receiving even the tiniest crumbs of affection.

Viajar, perder ciudades, perderlos todos.

La literatura me ha permitido siempre comprender la vida. Pero precisamente por eso me deja fuera de ella.

Estamos solos, cada uno consigo mismo y con su muerte propia y su vida solitaria y desastrosa, estamos muy solos todos. Pero te diré algo que quizás te consuele. La soledad es el afrodisíaco del espíritu, como la conversación lo es de la inteligencia.

Busco el recogimiento, porque suele ser más interesante la literatura que la vida. No sé si es paradójico, pero me gusta muchísimo la vida porque, digan lo que digan, se parece a una gran novela.

Personas de gran exigencia intelectual y potentísima inteligencia son hoy plenamente conscientes de que su destino en la vida —explicar lo que han entendido y que los otros no comprenden o no quieren ver— no sirve para nada porque a los otros ni les incumbe ni lo comprenden ni lo quieren saber.

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

If a person fights the clear evidence of his senses he will never be able to share in genuine tranquillity."41 In other words, a person who doubts his senses will either lose contact with the reality of the surrounding world, like the Skeptics, and become psychologically isolated and insecure, or he will fall prey, as do the religionists, to theological explanations which do not allay anxiety but foment it.

So the primary task of revolutionary struggle is to achieve the moral isolation of the adversary in its own eyes and in the eyes of the world. . . .

It's that awkward moment when you realize that the only nearby food is you. I

In the wilderness, life is reduced to its essentials: food, shelter, water. A person can lose himself here, both figuratively and literally. With very little effort, one can escape almost everything and everyone associated with civilization.

And if nobody ever hears from me again, It would be okay, And if nobody ever knows where I am, I won't mind, Because I would know where I am, And than is the most important thing.

Take what varies and "encapsulate" it so it won't affect the rest of your code.