Quotes About Isolation

In ogni specie sono i solitari a tentare esperienze nuove. Sono una quota sperimentale che va alla deriva. Dietro di loro la traccia aperta si richiude.

El amor seria una parada breve entre dos aislamientos. Hoy pienso en un tiempo final en común con una mujer, con la que coincidir como lo hacen las rimas, al término de una palabra.

The more isolated and disconnected we are, the more shattered and distorted our self-identity. We are not healthy when we are alone. We find ourselves when we connect to others. Without community we don't know who we are... When we live outside of healthy community, we not only lose others. We lose ourselves...Who we understand ourselves to be is dramatically affected for better or worse by those we hold closest to us.

It seems plain and self-evident, yet it needs to be said: the isolated knowledge obtained by a group of specialists in a narrow field has in itself no value whatsoever, but only in its synthesis with all the rest of knowledge and only inasmuch as it really contributes in this synthesis toward answering the demand, "Who are we?

When a system that is not alive is isolated or placed in a uniform environment, all motion usually comes to a standstill very soon as a result of various kinds of friction; differences of electric or chemical potential are equalized, substances which tend to form a chemical compound do so, temperature becomes uniform by heat conduction.

I stood out, and felt the constant touch of others' eyes.

and little grace or mercy behind me. I was nothing, I would die nothing, hunted

Lion. He told me of the wreck, and of the oil, stranded in the white wastes, and of its worth. I thought

We came to Macun when I was four, to a rectangle of rippled metal sheets on stilts hovering in the middle of a circle of red dirt.

The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.

Or you can believe that you have no emotional response, feel wrapped in cotton-wool insulating yourself from the world, when in fact you are deeply grieving.

He felt full of a dense and sour substance that was blocking his chest, and it wasn't grief. After all those years, life now seemed like no more than a trap, a maze, not even a maze, just a room that was all walls, no door.

sacredness refers to the holistic view that our spiritual self and our worldly existence can never be isolated from each other. Thus, whatever divinity is available to human beings, whatever our highest values might be, the only place we can witness that divinity directly is within our life in society.

When we separate our spiritual self from our life in the world, we create a kind of inner schism that leads to a sense of meaninglessness and isolation in our "secular" life.

Sometimes I feel that every word spoken and every gesture made merely serve to exacerbate misunderstandings. Then what I would really like is to escape into a great silence and impose that silence on everyone else.

That's how we stay young these days: murder and suicide.

I long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it.

Solitude seems to oppress me. And so does the company of other people.

A Solidão não é forçosamente Negativa, pelo contrário, até me parece um Privilégio. Talvez a minha Solidão seja Excessiva, mas eu Detestei sempre as coisas Mundanas. Estar com as Pessoas apenas para gastar as Horas é-me Insuportável…

Passamos pelas coisas sem as ver, gastos, como animais envelhecidos: se alguém chama por nós não respondemos, se alguém nos pede amor não estremecemos, como frutos de sombra sem sabor, vamos caindo ao chão, apodrecidos.

Don't love the world's ways. Don't love the world's goods. Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father. Practically everything that goes on in the world—wanting your own way, wanting everything for yourself, wanting to appear important—has nothing to do with the Father. It just isolates you from him. The world and all its wanting, wanting, wanting is on the way out—but whoever does what God wants is set for eternity.

Individualism is the growth-stunting, maturity-inhibiting habit of understanding growth as an isolated self-project. Individualism is self-ism with a swagger. The individualist is the person who is convinced that he or she can serve God without dealing with God.

Scripture knows nothing of the solitary Christian. People of faith are always members of a community. Creation itself was not complete until there was community, Adam needing Eve before humanity was whole. God never works with individuals in isolation, but always with people in community.

It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must be a little in love with death!