Quotes About Isolation

Even if you're independent, I think you get lonely.

Je ne savais pas encore quOn ne peut plus rire quand on est tout seul. On peut monologuer, on parle souvent tout haut, mais étrangement, le rire ne se produit plus.

Es solitario aquel o aquella que no es el número uno para nadie.

Go forth with crowds; in loneliness is danger.

He was dropped off directly in front of the Black Tower.

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone.

Not even when it had my name did I really think about what it would be like to pass days and months and years in those boxes, to be on the other side of the treatment,

Even toward the middle of the century, there were occasions when the London mailbag for Edinburgh was found to contain only a single letter.

Independence was enriching, but most often it meant loss, isolation, and cultural deprivation

We are all lonely and all seek a hand to hold in the darkness. It is not the harp, but the hand that plays it.

I feel nothing except a certain difficulty in continuing to exist.

The nation had had two symbols of solitude, the forest and the prairies; now it had a third, the mountains.

Anger Works Anger can be extremely rewarding in the short term. It can distract you from pain and threatening feelings. You may use anger to provoke fear and anxiety in others. Such anger makes others feel threatened, allowing you to gain control. But regularly directing anger at someone is likely to make him or her even less supportive. Ultimately, that person will withdraw completely- leaving you feeling even more isolated.

For the Fabers, isolating Leslie in a program for the retarded helped protect her, but only for the six hours of the school day. The rest of the time, they could only hope their child had enough judgment to stay out of trouble. No matter what precautions they took, parents could never be sure.

A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.

Je prends le globe du Damien et regarde longuement l'immense boucle tracée depuis le départ. Plymouth si près, dix mille milles à peine vers le nord… mais partir de Plymouth pour rentrer à Plymouth, c'est devenu au fil du temps comme partir de nulle part pour aller nulle part. C'est formidable, ce petit globe que je tiens dans mes mains ! Et nous sommes seuls, mon bateau et moi. Seuls avec la mer immense pour nous tout seuls.

Viimaste ellujääjate agoonia on ilmselt kõige hullem.

They knew that Pascal's room, Thoreau's hut, and especially their own den was a dark chamber, an unhealthy space full of resentment; they knew that one is nothing when alone, that one thinks most often of nothing at all, and that hell is not other people, but the self.

She came home from work to the noise of fellow youngsters having fun through the partition walls Exacerbating her aloneness Yet she knew this was exactly what she needed Solititude To register what she was feeling Forcing herself to become deaf to all sound except her own

to choose such a brutal and dramatic finale Carole knows what drives people to such despair, knows what it's like to appear normal but to feel herself swaying just one leap away from the amassed crowds on the platforms who carry enough hope in their hearts to stay alive swaying just one leap away from eternal peace

Carole knows what drives people to such despair, knows what its like to appear normal but to feel herself swaying just one leap away from the amassed crowds on the platforms who carry enough hope in their hearts to stay alive swaying just one leap away from eternal peace

it felt like she was coming in from the cold

To explore technology for me is something that I have to do. Otherwise, I feel completely left in the back... abandoned.

So my illnesses create a disturbance? They attack me without warning and leave me insensible wherever I may be. I cannot be expected, before feeling ill, to ask people who happen to be there to leave the room.