Quotes About Isolation

Before her escort could react, she sprinted out from their little pool of lantern-light into the darkness, her feet pounding the soft, treacherous clods of the field. The guards called after her for a while, but did not pursue, In a lost city, how could they chase down every lost soul who became a little more lost?

He felt worse than naked in front of them, as if something had torn out his middke and left him a ridiculous doughnut boy that everyone could look right through.

The Great Outside that had filled Neverfell's thoughts had noticed her and judged her. It had found her wanting. No, worse than that, it had screamed in horror and disgust and fled from her.

Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea - the profound solitude - that does it for me.

A sentence starts out like a lone traveler heading into a blizzard at midnight, tilting into the wind, one arm shielding his face, the tails of his thin coat flapping behind him.

and everyone would stare at me because they were starving.

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.

When Jesus needed friends, they left Him.

Loneliness is no respecter of persons. It invades the palace as well as the hut.

There are thousands of lonely people who carry heavy and difficult burdens of grief, anxiety, pain, and disappointment; but the loneliest of all is one whose life is steeped in sin.

The kind of society we live in can contribute to loneliness. Mobility and constant change tend to make some individuals feel rootless and disconnected.

I have often said that loneliness is the predominant attitude in our culture. A person can be lonely in the midst of a party; he can be lonely in a crowd. Loneliness may be experienced by the rich and famous or the poor and unknown.

Can the sin of one or a few cause suffering for many? The answer, of course, is yes, for no sin is isolated in the life of the sinner. It spreads like poison gas into every available crevice.

La soledad es un agudo dolor generalizado. No se le puede aislar en una sola parte del cuerpo.

It doesn't matter about money having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.

ein film wie rainman heitert die gemuter auf er sagt aber nichts von dem totalen chaos reichlicher angst und die unsagbare traurigkeit und einsamkeit in uns dieser film zeigt eine fassade zum zwecke der unterhaltung ich will einem film mit jamlia machen der in die tiefen der autistenwelt inansteigt er soll aufdecken und gute analytische innere dinge im gedanken und gefuhlsleven arbeit leisten ich freue mich aus die arbeit an dem film

We're always contradicting ourselves. We want people to tell us apart.... ...yet we don't want them to be able to. We want people to get to know us... ...but we also want them to keep their distance. We've always longed for someone to accept us... But we never believed there'd be anyone who would accept our twisted ways. That's why we'll stay locked up tight... ...in our own little private world... ...and throw away the key, so that no one can ever hurt us.

I was sad and lonely...but it was due to my own awkwardness..so I could stand it... and I even got used to it.

When you write my epitaph, you must say I was the loneliest person who ever lived.

I'm self-sufficient. I spend a lot of time on my own and I shut off quite easily. When I communicate, I communicate 900 per cent, then I shut off, which scares people sometimes.

You show me continents, I see the islands, You count the centuries, I blink my eyes.

i thrive best hermit style. with a beard and a pipe.

Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us and it was very still but there were whispers.

Man is naturally a sympathetic and a social animal. He has, no doubt, strong, self-preserving, self-asserting, and self-advancing instincts, which, if left without counteraction, would naturally lead to isolation or mutual hostility, and ultimate extermination; but these instincts of isolated individualism are met by yet stronger instincts of sympathy, love, and fellowship, in the ascendency of which the true humanity of man as distinguished from tigerhood and spiderhood consists.