Quotes About Isolation

Because Judas is the only one of the twelve with two names, Judas and Iscariot, and that second name most obviously suggests he had come from afar to the Galilean hills, he is implicitly being cast from the very start as the outsider. That

a personal relationship in an impersonal world

Facing a wall when you write really aids your concentration.

shack-dwelling

You know what happens when you keep a dog locked away from every living thing, except you visit once a day and kick the shit out of him?" Perreault laughed nervously. "Someone actually tried that?" "What happens is, the dog's a social animal, and it gets so lonely it actually looks forward to the shit-kicking. It asks to be kicked. It begs.

But then I remembered: the universe was closed, and so very small. There was really nowhere else to go.

So much anger in here. So much hate. So much to take out on someone. This time it's going to count. She's adrift in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, three hundred kilometers from land. She's alone. She has nothing to eat. It doesn't matter. None of it matters. She's alive; that alone gives her the upper hand.

The abyss is a desert; no one can afford the luxury of waiting for better odds.

Point of view matters: I see that now, blind, talking to myself, trapped in a coffin falling past the edge of the solar system. I

And she almost laughs as she realizes, three thousand meters from the nearest sunlight, that it's only dark when the lights are on.

Grey syndrome.

My friend. And by the time she gets over that jarring idea, she's alone again.

I could be the only sentient being in the universe. If I'm even that much. Because I don't know if there is such a thing as a reliable narrator.

He may have been wrong. I may have been. But that, that distance—that chronic sense of being an alien among your own kind—it's not entirely a bad thing.

Normally, a guilt-laden individual is isolated from society, but in a group he does not have to endure this fate, being merely a sinner among sinners" (emphasis added). Mitscherlich s own

Evil does not exist in isolation. It is a product of amorality by consensus.

?ntihar intihard?r ve ba?ka bir ?ey de?ildir. ?ntihar ediyorum. Kendi kendimden nefretimin çerçeveledi?i ve çirkinle?tirdi?i bir dünyada yaln?z?m.

dünyan?n iki buçuk milyar nüfusundan yaln?z bir tek insan üzerinde ?srar?n bir monomaniden ba?ka ad? var m?d?r?

Onlar? ?imdiden gayet iyi tan?yorum. Üstümden ç?kar?p yata?a att???m robdö?ambr içinde, ebediyen ayn? insan bulunacak: Hasta.

Be? dakika sonra hastaneden ç?k?yorum. Son not. Bu odada ba?kalar? inleyecekler. Onlar? ?imdiden gayet iyi tan?yorum. Üstümden ç?kar?p yata?a att???m ropdö?amb?r içinde, ebediyen ayn? insan bulunacak: Hasta.

I was drug through the cave away from the others.

Do you know what it's like going through life better than everybody? It's hard.

And now I realize: I was fired. They didn't disappear to watch football, or do drugs. They were getting rid of me.

It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.