Quotes About Isolation

It wasn't easy being single and pushing forty in a big family group, and he guessed that's what was eating at her. He knew how it felt. He slept alone and he ate alone. He watched television alone and, when he was reading a book and came across an exceptionally good passage, he had nobody to share it with.

The best quality about Kobe Bryant? You want me to be honest? I don't know. I'll tell you why. I open my arms to everybody. But he never stepped forward for the embrace. So I never really got to know him. I don't know anything about him, and it's kinda sad.

I hated my life. Maybe it'd be easier if I could just die. [pp.119]

She was the clock, a clock that had lost its key, unwinding in the dark.

Knowing the truth makes me alone. I wrote that once, but I think I was wrong. Fear of pain is what has made me alone. But today I realized that pain and love have a balance. I can feel so much of one only because I feel so much of the other.

It's like I live in a cage with no door and no key. And I have no way to tell someone how to get me out.

My mind is cloudy. My heart is bloody, and my soul is on ice.

She finally cannot stand the pressure of the gUilt, and she kills herself.

And slowly he starts to seem more far away, he seems to waft, drift at a distance

But if feels as if he's not here— though he's here, it feels as if, for me, there's no one there

the flesh no one seems now to care to touch.

and for an instant he's alive toward me, a gem of sea of pond in his eye. Then that retreat into himself, which always moved me, as if there were a sideways gravity, in him, toward some vanishing point.

It's so quiet, and empty, when he's left. I feel like a landscape, a ground without a figure.

I sat on the air above it and looked down on its uninhabitable beauty.

next to some people something walks, like a starveling, sometimes for a lifetime.

He lived so enclosed in himself, he seemed alive not exactly like others, but hibernating

I feel like a landscape, a ground without a figure.

I needed to grieve alone, not as a group and not as a spectacle.

It is easier to see who is real and truthful and who is pretending for nefarious reasons. While it can feel lonely to realize this piece of life, it is important to spend this alone time, to find a deeper place within oneself.

Celebrity is having ten thousand friends and five really sick enemies , all of whom you have never met . WILL never meet if you're lucky . Either you accept that and resolve to live with it , or you get out of the spotlight and hope to God you left in time . Because if anybody still remembers you from one flash of fame twenty years ago , then anonymity is not an option .

Conflict is a form of intimacy, and he did not want to be close to anyone.

The world is a deaf machine

This is a sad town," he said. "One can be here 10 years and not make enough friends to count. Anything with any character, any history, they will tear it down and they will put in a neon sign. Or something in plastic.

My father's face was not among them. No memorial was built for the men who had survived by selling their souls. The thousands who had disappeared over the years, stained as criminals, who emerged back into the light as neighborhood pariahs for nothing more than the desire to claim an island as their own. No memorial for the men more complicated than martyrs—or for the families who'd had to relearn the hardships of the everyday.