Quotes About Isolation

Ten little soldier boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were Nine.

One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone. I have nephews and nieces and kind friends---but there's no one who knew me as a young girl---non one who belongs to the old days. I've been alone for quite a long time now.

Emily Brent, Vera Claythorne, Dr. Armstrong, Anthony Marston, old Justice Wargrave, Philip Lombard, General Macarthur, C.M.G., D.S.O. Manservant and wife: Mr. and Mrs. Rogers.

One little soldier boy left all alone; He went and hanged himself And then there were None. Frank Green, 1869

In the heart of the desert or in the heart of a crowd—what does it matter? The inmost core of man is solitary—alone. I have always been —a lonely soul....

One little soldier boy left all alone." How did it end? Oh, yes! "He got married and then there were none.

Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

Hélas, la vie calme et tranquille que je m'étais imaginée s'est très vite transformée en enfer.

We're a bunch of intellectuals who sit in the Atelier or in the Grillon and talk to each other. And when we write, we write for each other. We have absolutely no connection with the people.The people don't know we exist.

Old people are starved of touch: no husband, no lover, no child to slip a hand into a hand, to plant sticky kisses on nose and cheek and mouth, to snuggle and fit into the curves of the body. I watched my grandmother - my mother's mother - in her last years: her hand, the skin drawn parchmentlike over the bones, stroking, stroking, the chairs, the table, the bedspread.

Being alone and being lonely are two different things. (Yasu)

I could feel the tears beginning to collect in my throat again, but I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups.

Anyone with two eyes and a pair of binoculars could see that you stopped going inside soon after you moved to town.)

We are brought up to proclaim ourselves as individuals in such an extreme way that often we don't feel any connection to anything at all, not even to our own parents or families.

The barb in the arrow of childhood suffering is this its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.

The walls were unadorned except for a tattered calendar that stopped at December 1941, when the world changed forever.

With the exception of rainy days, my entire summer was spent in this kind of mountain samurai's existence.

In other words, take "myself," subtract "movies" and the result is "zero.

She had lost her compassion for people and a thick crust of indifference had formed around her feelings - that disgust that afflicts the exhausted, the frustrated, and the perverted and prevents them from sympathizing with others.

short, I could do the work, but no one liked me.

Baudelaire proclaimed the delight he felt when at last, in the evening, he was alone in the haven of his bedroom. There, he wrote, citing La Bruyère, he escaped 'the great woe of not being able to be alone', by contrast with those who lose themselves in the crowd, 'probably afraid they couldn't tolerate themselves'.

Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.

I feel completely alone - it's like melting, I am the structure, and I am also Alain Robert.

Loneliness is everything it's cracked up to be.