Quotes About Isolation

A life spent at one's desk is a life alone.

Nothing", he said. "Except that my life, for the most part, has been very stale and colorless. Dead, I mean. The world has always been an empty place to me. I was incapable of enjoying even the simplest things. I felt dead in everything I did.

A world of ticking clocks and creaking floorboards.

Taft generally ate alone. Forever struggling to lose weight, he limited his midday meal to an apple or a glass of water.

If he could not go out into the world, the world could come to him.

People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone.

Yes, cannibals. People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone.

Anna switched off; something inside her went dead, or moved apart from what was happening. She became a shell. She stood there, looking at words like love, friendship, duty, responsibility and knew them to be all lies.

But then, what is madness, but a refuge, a retreating from the world?

I fell into shame like a suicide throws herself into a river. (253)

Delia picked at the raw sores of her conscience...Drunk or sober, Delia lived in the small town in her heart, ignoring the world in which all her love had turned to grief.

There were no passing cars to call out to. You couldn't call for help from a police car, anyway; he didn't think you could.

At eight the bar was emptied of all but those whose goal was alcoholism

There is no one to understand us, except ourselves.

Mr Blyth, you should remember one thing. A celibate island life fighting Turks is no particular guarantee of early maturity. Take a little crone-like advice, and don't rush your judgements.

I am too far away now from it all,' Lymond said. 'And if we are going to be metaphysical, I have no sea card, or compass, or star.

In a lifetime of empty rooms, this was another.

She wouldn't send anyone, nor would she take anyone with her. She organizes witches' Sabbaths every full moon,' explained Philippa tartly.

You don't understand,' she said. In her lap, the loose hands had ground together: between the fair brows a single line showed, of anger and disgust and a kind of futile perplexity. 'You don't understand: how can you? You were born into a household, with parents and wealth; you knew your friends and your enemies; you knew your position in life; whom you were fighting for: whom you were against. I am alone. Every man is my enemy.

The sea demands a man who knows the sea and respects it. A man who is prepared to be lonely. There is no isolation like that of the helm in a storm, except the isolation when it is windless.

For how long can one maintain total vigilance? For how long can love last, in isolation, without sinking crushed beneath its own pressure?

A pity, she thought, that taking a stand on moral issues had to prove so lonely these days

Mr. Copley, feeling as though his head were filled with hard knobs of spinning granite that crashed with sickening thuds against his brainpan, walked stiffly away to his own quarters. As

If they are cold, these English women, it is because they are frozen with neglect.