Quotes About Isolation

Menschen brauchten Abstand voneinander. Gerhard hatte lange genug in Berlin gelebt, um das zu wissen.

The monologue of an isolated person who allows the threads of private thoughts to surface in letters and conversations, even in conversations with strangers.

If you're the only person left, as long as your hope is committed in action, then hope is alive in the world.

We need to bridge our sense of loneliness and disconnection with a sense of community and continuity even if we must manufacture it from our time on the Web and our use of calling cards to connect long distance. We must "log on" somewhere, and if it is only in cyberspace, that is still far better than nowhere at all. (264)

I, too, seem to be a connoisseur of rain, but it does not fill me with joy; it allows me to steep myself in a solitude I nurse like a vice I've refused to vanquish.

My tastes, like my bones, fossilized decades ago. Reach a certain age and you are obliged to become an anthropologist. It's the only way to ignore that the rest of the world regards you as an artifact, that your culture has faded beyond the horizon, leaving you adrift on your tiny, solitary life raft.

There are lots of different ways grown-ups disappear. It's lonely being the one left behind.

This is how it happens, this is how you stop yourself feeling so much. You go cold, colder still with each disappointment, each betrayal until you find you've frozen over at the core of you and you stop feeling anything anymore.

To be of no account to others. No one listens to you.

And nevertheless, no, I have nothing to say to them, to my parents. Nothing. Nothing and everything, as always. If I tried – out of boldness, through luck, or in distress – to share with them some of the violence that causes me to be so totally on my own, they would not know where I am, who I am, what it is, in others, that rubs me the wrong way.

porque habéis dejado de ser David, porque continuáis estando solos, porque vuestro sufrimientos del pasado no pueden borrar el nuestro. Pero sobre todo, porque ya habéis perdido el alma.

If one didn't have love, was it better, then, to be alone?

And if that weren't bad enough, the next sound he heard was a loud click. The damned woman had locked him out. She'd taken all the food and locked him out. "You'll pay for this!" he yelled at the door. "Do be quiet," came the muffled reply. "I'm eating.

He knew well the singularly strange sensation of loving one's family to distraction, and yet not feeling quite able to share one's deepest and most intractable fears. It brought on an uncanny sense of isolation, of being remarkably alone in a loud and loving crowd.

The slanted light of dawn was rippling through the windowpane, and Miss Anne Sainsbury was huddled beneath her thin blanket, wondering, as she often did, where she would find money for her next meal." That was really good. Even he wanted to know what happened to Miss Sainsbury, and he was making it up.

And all she could think was that her life was passing her by, and if she didn't do something soon, she'd die this way. Alone.

And then he made haste out the door, making his way to his greenhouse, where he could be alone with his nonspeaking, nonmisbehaving, nonmeddlesome plants.

I am trapped in a bad novel," Iris announced, to no one in particular.

He knew well the singularly strange sensation of loving one's family to distraction, and yet not feeling quite able to share one's deepest and most intractable fears. It brought on an uncanny sense of isolation, of being remarkably alone in a loud and loving crowd.

The fey in this country keep to themselves, and are a separate nation, much like the American Indians, but with even more autonomy.

I'm pretty much a loner. That's not good, bad, or indifferent.

It's an individual sport so you get in the ring on your own and then when you retire you tend to spend the rest of your life on your own.

Fundamentally, American society is composed of individuals who don't go out of their way to do each other favours.

I always hope that people feel less alone when they see a movie that I make. That some part of the story played out on the big screen will resonate for individuals in the audience in a way that gives them comfort.