Quotes About Isolation

Einsam bist du sehr alleine - und am schlimmsten ist die Einsamkeit zu zweit. (in: Kleines Solo)

We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go out…we creep in upon ourselves and with big eyes stare into the night…and thus we wait for morning.

The smell of peace is abroad, the air is cold, the skies are brittle, and the leaves have finally fallen. I wear a pony coat with skin like watered silk and muff of lamb. My fingers lie in depths of warmth. I have a jacket of silver sequins and heavy bracelets of rich corals. I wear about my neck a triple thread-like chain of lapis lazulis and pearls. On my face is softness and content like a veil of golden moonlight. And I have never in all my lives been so lonely.

The invulnerable, matchless and exclusive live a life like dazzling fish in a scintillating seascape behind glass. Everybody may admire them, nobody can touch them and there is no fear or guilt in overexposing opulence and fortune.( "Keeping up with the Joneses")

If I didn't tell someone everything, maybe I didn't exist.

I want to be seen, to be understood deeply and to not be so very lonely."1

Making yourself an outcast was one way to avoid the pain of having it done to you.

I know I did the right thing, but no one would ever understand.

You have no idea how much pain I'm in. It's like being cut open every day, bleeding onto the stones. I can't understand how any of you failed to see the blood....

The silence was deafening, pressing more heavily on Hollyleaf's ears than the stones that pinned her to the cold floor.

I've been buried alive!

Their father blamed me! And RiverClan cast me out, too. Can you imagine what that feels like? To be rejected twice? To be a loner when all you tried to do was to love?

Jagged Peak was buried alive.

The worst bit of the dream," Pebble Heart murmured as his breathing slowed. "Was that you were gone." "Hush." Gray Wing's belly tightened. "Turtle Tail was gone too. We were alone. Just me and Sparrow Fur and Owl Eyes. We were all alone.

Hollypaw felt a wave of sadness. They used to share everything, but now getting details out of her brother was like trying to pick fleas off a hedgehog. Unless they jumped out by themselves, there was no way she could reach them.

Mapleshade unsheathed her scarlet, broken claws. "Leave me alone," she rasped, forcing herself to lift her head and glare at her companion. "I don't need anyone.

But Jaypaw seemed to be guided by invisible paws, as though he walked in a secret world she could never be part of. They

I know what it's like to have a power no other cat understands. It's the loneliest feeling in the world.

Great knowledge can be lonely.

His voice ached with a loneliness that contradicted his words. Sandstorm

Querido Diario: Han transcurrido mil años lunares, del tiempo lunar. Todo el mundo ha estado contando historias menos yo. No tengo nada digno que contar. Todo lo que puedo hacer es dibujar monstruos, órganos internos y odiar.

I used to think I was the only one who felt things, but I really am only one infinitely small part of an aching humanity.

As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.