Quotes About Isolation

Autobiographia Literaria" When I was a child I played by myself in a corner of the schoolyard all alone. I hated dolls and I hated games, animals were not friendly and birds flew away. If anyone was looking for me I hid behind a tree and cried out "I am an orphan." And here I am, the center of all beauty! writing these poems! Imagine!

when you are the only passenger if there is a place further from me I beg you do not go

And as for you, Holden, old son: if you happen to meet my body coming through the rye, I'd really appreciate it if you'd just stand aside and get out of my fucking way.

Because it's all about fear - fear of being alone, fear of never being asked and, worst of all, the fear of having a choice and making the wrong one.

Surprise! Adolescence is not an exciting adventure. It's actually very boring and lonelier than you could ever imagine.

When I drive 'home' and leave you, it makes me feel like I'm driving to nowhere - to nothing - to a place that doesn't make me feel.

then, the library had tentatively reassured me that, however isolated I felt, I was not alone.

It's a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead -- and to find no one there.

Even a witch wants sympathy.

There is a lump of desolation beneath the bony dip at my throat. It is no bigger than a coin, this spot, a peculiarly small place to hold such a feeling. I try to shove it to some deeper region, but there it sticks, a fragile skin-thickness from the outside world.

Skipping meals is terrifically convenient: It gives one lots of time to brood and hate oneself.

Harold Laswell's famous definition of politics as a social process determining "who gets what, when, and how," there can be little doubt that chimpanzees engage in it. Since in both humans and their closest relatives the process involves bluff, coalitions, and isolation tactics, a common terminology is warranted.

Gould was clearly the expert taxonomist, but it was Darwin who proposed the radical notion: Was it possible for a species of birds to split into two (or more) species if the birds were isolated on separate islands? This notion eventually became the basis for what may be considered the most significant scientific revolution of our time, the theory of evolution.

Ä°lkel ve soyutlanm?? kabileler bize stabil görünürler; çünkü rahat ve müdahale edilmeyen koÅŸullarda deÄŸiÅŸim oldukça yavaÅŸt?r.

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

What have I in common with Jews? I have almost nothing in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.

No one else could ever be admitted here, since this gate was made only for you. I am now going to shut it.

I am free and that is why I am lost.

I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.

A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity." [ Letter to Max Brod , July 5, 1922]

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.

A comedian who starts talking to himself becomes his own audience. This is fatal.

It isn't only famous movie stars who want to be alone. Whenever I hear someone speak of privacy, I find myself thinking once again how real and deep the need for such times is for all human beings . . . at all ages.