Quotes About Isolation

We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely and like we're falling. I think the brain is such that there is always going to be something missing.

Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.

She mourned what every human being mourns in the first moments of full adulthood—that even inside a friend's arms one can be totally, absolutely alone.

Over time as most people fail the survivor's exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw from relationships. The isolation of the survivor thus persists even after she is free.

When trust is lost, traumatized people feel that they belong more to the dead than to the living.

Recovery can take place only within then context of relationships; it cannot occur in isolation.

We are in the midst of an evolution of human consciousness, and empaths are the path forgers. A sacred responsibility comes with our sensitivities, which demand more of us than simply retreating into isolation. It's vital we learn how to avoid feeling overwhelmed so that we can fully shine our power in the world. Empaths and all sensitive people are pioneers on the forefront of a new way of being for humankind.

AS A CHILD I FELT MYSELF TO BE ALONE, AND I AM STILL, BECAUSE I KNOW THINGS AND MUST HINT AT THINGS THAT OTHERS APPARENTLY KNOW NOTHING OF, AND FOR THE MOST PART DO NOT WANT TO KNOW. LONELINESS DOES NOT COME FROM HAVING NO PEOPLE ABOUT ONE, BUT FROM BEING UNABLE TO COMMUNICATE THE THINGS THAT SEEM IMPORTANT TO ONESELF, OR FROM HOLDING CERTAIN VIEWS WHICH OTHERS FIND INADMISSIBLE. Dr. Carl Jung As

Everyone is so excited. We're just dying, Becky! And it's all because of you," Lettie gushed. "If Eric wasn't your cousin, none of this would have happened." She gave me a big smile. "I'm so glad I'm your friend!" You won't be glad for long , I thought. Wait until Saturday night comes and there's no Eric. The girls in cabin eight would probably make me sleep outside with the squirrels. And I would deserve it.

I stayed indoors most of the time, which kept my skin very white. And my hair was as black as Ilana's. I wore black clothes all the time, just as she did. When I was in elementary school the other girls had called me a witch, scratched me with their nails, giggled behind their notebooks. But now I was in high school and suddenly everyone wore black and had pale skin and cultivated a disheveled haunted look. Now I blended in.

There have been times when I have deliberately tried to take my life... I think I must have been crying for some attention.

If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?

You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people.

They stepped outside to the pristine beauty of Rose Bay, to the endless stretch of white beach and the stark blue of the ocean and the differing greens of the trees, of native gums and palms that formed a backdrop to the two lone boat sheds that sat there. As far as the eye could see, there was not another soul in sight.

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

L'enfant se croyait la seule petite fille au monde. Savait-elle seulement qu'elle était une petite fille?

The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.

We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.

Das Leben war schwierig geworden, es gab nichts Großes, an das man glauben, keine Pflichten, die man erfüllen, keine Bräuche, an denen man sich freuen konnte, und was einst eine Familie gewesen war, bestand aus versprengten Einzelwesen, die man liebte oder verzweifelt bedauerte - es ließ sich kaum noch unterscheiden.

Der Mensch ist taub und blind gegen die Welt, aber er spürt es wie Rheuma, wenn ihn etwas am Schicksal reißt.

Der Physiker, allein gelassen, erhebt die eigene Existenz zum Zweifelsfall und ermittelt gegen sich selbst.

Für einen Erwachsenen ist das Fehlen von Zeit offensichtlich eine Art Heimatlosigkeit.

Smutek saß einfach da, betäubt vom Lärm in seinem Inneren.

Als ob eine Stadt mehr wäre als eine Ansammlung von haushoch gestapelten Heimatlosen.