Quotes About Isolation

Prison had a way of draining people of their hope and humanity. But Harlan didn't have to worry about that because he'd gone in empty.

Where did God go? It's like he just abandoned us. Without so much as a 'good luck.' It's every man for himself now and it just -- sucks.

If you stuffed a ship full to bursting point with human bodies, there would be such loneliness that they would all freeze.

Talk lives in a man's head, but sometimes it is very lonely because in the heads of many men there is nothing to keep it company - and so talk goes out through the lips.

Some animals had been stranded for close to two weeks when we got to them. Some were on porches, some marooned on car hoods and roofs. Doing whatever they could to survive." - Troy Snow

The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.

A bare lightbulb flickered and buzzed near the ceiling, and the odors of old age and despair spilled from the open doorways. Though I tried to keep my eyes set on the floor in front of me, I couldn't help taking a sideways glance into some of the rooms. One old lady with deep-suffering eyes reached her hand through the metal rails surrounding her bed, spread her bony fingers, and begged me to take her home. It was the saddest five seconds of my life.

Were there language, I'd be my own lone letter.

All the young tech workers were still in their tech boxes or on their tech commuter buses with faces fixed to their screens doing their tech jobs. My catch-all phrase for whatever it was they did was Petting the Glass. Everywhere I looked nowadays people were Petting the Glass.

From cold or horror I could not speak. The sodden blanket was heavy, the coldness in my heart flowed out and turned the whole world cold—there was no warm place. The thoughts I had frozen in order not to feel them grew monstrous, freezing everything else.

Once again, I had made my world a very small place, and I didn't want to live there.

We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.

But don't go thinking that I'm critical of you, Anton, because really I'm not. Not a bit! It's just that you're not here. I'm alone and I'm frightened and you're not here. And you're not ever going to be here for me.

Each suburban wife struggled with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffered Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night-she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-Is this all

The gene pool ran pretty small on the Arizona Strip.

That was the trouble with this house. A girl couldn't even carry on a telephone conversation with any privacy

emotional abuse is much more than verbal abuse. Emotional abuse can be defined as any nonphysical behavior that is designed to control, intimidate, subjugate, demean, punish, or isolate another person through the use of degradation, humiliation, or fear.

To be alone and to be drunk with your own aloneness is what meditation is all about.

I had never walked on the street alone when I was growing up in Calcutta, up to age 20. I had never handled money. You know, there was always a couple of bodyguards behind me, who took care if I wanted... I needed pencils for school, I needed a notebook, they were the ones who were taking out the money. I was constantly guarded.

One time you mentioned the loneliness inside of marriage and I did not understand what you were saying. Two people are together; they have come from the same place; they share the same values, the same language. Practically speaking, they are the two halves of one consciousness. They eat the same food; they have a child; they sleep in the same bed, how can they be lonely.

Where, in Heaven's name, could anyone even be alone in Calcutta? What hanky-panky business, in my mother's words, could go on? Everyone knew the rules and the rules stated caste and community narrowed the range of intimate contact.

Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth.

I read to be alone. I read so as not to be alone.

Donald Trump talks about America first. He's made America alone.