Quotes About Isolation

I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.

Poor strangers, they have so much to be afraid of.

I have continued to come here for that kind of aloneness, so very different from being lonely with someone.

It's distance that makes mountains mountains. Looked at closely, they start to resemble me.

This thing called universal gravitation Is the power of loneliness pulling together.

Desolation would not be the proper word to describe his feelings now; it was more the sense of emptiness he imagined he might feel standing all alone on the surface of the moon.

Ich bedauere dreißig Jahre der Kontaktarmut und glaube fast, dass man sich öfter berühren sollte, es gäbe weniger Elend.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

Jamie enjoyed solitude, but loneliness was a constant ache.

I did not dread the dark winter as people do when they have lost their youth and live alone in some great city.

We were carrying something in our heads which belonged to us alone, and to those we had left behind us in the battle.

The purgatory I'd let myself in for always came between me and the pages; there was no escape for me now.

Strangers don't smile at me. Even though I'm only 17, I'm too big to get smiles.

Someone has said, When you are born into this world there are at least two of you, but going out you are on your own. Death happens to every one of us, yet it remains the most solitary of human experiences, one that separates rather than unites us.

and in a city, if you don't want to see anyone ever again, you can often dodge them indefinitely. Not so in Isle Madame. It didn't take long to see that privacy was not much valued here, and was not easy to obtain.

God help us both if this is summer. The sun shines all day and all night but it has no warmth, no light, no colour.

All of them with their own lives, untouched by mine. Or each other's.

There's this thing of you can live in a city and be completely alone, not notice anything going on around you.

Late-night cafés stand alone, like campfires holding out against the fall of night. Offering solace to their customers, from endless empty evenings and mean rooms no one ever visits.

I spend long, long time in shoe box.

But the vast majority of humans are descendants of the children of the dirt. And no matter how long they search the earth, they'll never find what they're looking for because there's nobody for them, not anybody in the world.

Mi pisci imamo neku tajnu koja nas održava u životu i daje nam nadu, mada znamo da to što pišemo nikad ne?emo mo?i da objavimo. Isak Babelj radi na ne?emu tajnom, Miša Bulgakov piše roman o ?avolu u Moskvi. Ali niko ih nikad ne?e ?itati. Niko ni mene ne?e ?itati.

Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in the universe, except that everyone else is still here.

When small drops began to fall and darken the world in penny-shaped circles, no one around him scurried for cover. For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.