Quotes About Isolation

I can't believe the phone has its own room!

Suddenly, you could find yourself trapped and alone, in a situation that was out of control. It was like being trapped in a cage with an angry bear—in fact, the most dangerous part of a tornado was often referred to as the bear's cage. And it could all happen in the blink of an eye. Even so, Tim kept trying to pilot the van closer and closer to the storm.

Reading is an act of friendly isolation. When we are reading, we make ourselves unapproachable in a tactful way. Perhaps that is exactly what has interested painters for so long in the portrayal of readers: showing people in a state of deepest intimacy not intended for outsiders. If the viewer were to approach the reader in real life, this condition would immediately be threatened. So painting allows us to see what we actually cannot see, or see only at the price of destroying it.

Her head and heart had been empty for so long, the world drained of meaning. Her favorite dishes tasted like ash, paintings that had once taken her breath away, were hollow scrolls. Music that had once lifted her soul, jangled like a distant cacophony

Ä°nsan sabahtan akÅŸama kadar bir ÅŸey olmas?n? bekler ve hiçbir ÅŸey olmaz. Bekleyip durur insan. Hiçbir ÅŸey olmaz. Ä°nsan bekler, bekler, bekler, ÅŸakaklar? zonklayana dek düÅŸünür, düÅŸünür, düÅŸünür. Hiçbir ÅŸey olmaz. Ä°nsan yaln?z kal?r. Yaln?z. Yaln?z.

He was welcome everywhere he went, and was well-aware of his inability to tolerate solitude. He felt no inclination to be alone and avoided it as far as possible; he didn't really want to become any better acquainted with himself. He knew that if he wanted to show his talents to best advantage, he needed to strike sparks off other people to fan the flames of warmth and exuberance in his heart. On his own he was frosty, no use to himself at all, like a match left lying in its box.

Ä°nsanlar?n aras?nda yaln?z olmaktan daha korkunç bir ÅŸey yoktur.

She could be lively only in the midst of life; in isolation she dwindled to a shadow.

Yapacak, duyacak, görecek hiçbir ÅŸey yoktu, her yerde ve sürekli hiçlikle çevriliydi insan, boyuttan ve zamandan tümüyle yoksun, boÅŸlukta.

Bize bir ÅŸey yapmad?lar, sadece mutlak hiçliÄŸe soktular, çünkü dünyada hiçbir ÅŸeyin insan ruhu üzerinde hiçlik kadar bask? yapmayaca?? bilinir....

Bize hiçbir ÅŸey yapmad?lar, bizi tümüyle hiçliÄŸin içine yerleÅŸtirdiler, çünkü bilindiÄŸi gibi yeryüzünde hiçbir ÅŸey insan ruhuna hiçlik kadar bask? yapmaz.

He lived one of those lives that seem otiose because they are not linked to any community of interest, because all the riches stored in them by a thousand separate valuable experiences will pass when their last breath is drawn, without anyone to inherit them.

Nothing on earth exerts such pressure on the human soul as a void.

My child died last night—and now I shall be alone again, if I must really go on living. They will come tomorrow, strange, hulking, black-clad men bringing a coffin, and they will put him in it, my poor boy, my only child.

The woman who had been born in an imperial palace, and then, as Queen of France, had had hundreds of rooms in her dwelling house, was now imprisoned in a tiny basement cell, its walls streaming with damp, and its grated window half occluded.

Ben kendimi, ?????n hiçbir zaman içinde kalmadan geçip gittiÄŸi camdan bir nesne gibi hissettim.

Montaigne is the sworn enemy of all responsibility. He strives to dodge decisions. Solitary sage in a time of mass fanaticism, he seeks seclusion and flight.

Ac? çekmek için bile yetersizdim.

Nothing was done to us - we were simply placed in a complete void, and everyone knows that nothing on earth exerts such pressure on the human soul as a void.

I had no witness against me left but my own memory."..

Seuls les enfants solitaires peuvent contenir toute leur passion; les autres, à trop causer éventent leurs sentiments en public, les émoussent en vaines confidences.

But you wouldn't believe what a dead finger does to a living hand.

Yanl?z kalmaya ve kendi ateÅŸimle kavrulmaya daha fazla dayanamayacakt?m. Fakat bütün bak??lar beni yalay?p geçiyordu, kimse varl???m? hissetmek istemiyordu.

Bize hiçbir ÅŸey yap?lmad?, yaln?zca tam bir hiçliÄŸin içine koyulduk, çünkü bilindiÄŸi gibi dünyada hiçbir ÅŸey insan ruhunu hiçlik kadar bask? alt?na alamaz.