Quotes About Isolation

One day I finally decided, that there is no point sharing my feelings, You don't enjoy..."

When he shut himself in his apartment he found that he hoped he was waiting for nothing at all.

The crying wailed, somewhere beneath the planks. Several sweeps of the light showed that the cellar was otherwise deserted. Though the face mouthed behind him, he ventured down. For God's sake, get it over with; he knew he would never dare return.

Everything was real except her.

I can't really have any friends. It's sad, really. It's lonely. But that's how I am.

Police officers put up barbed wire around their hearts to protect them.

Solitude is much preferred to the more disturbing isolation of sharing loneliness with a stranger. I

Electronic Nocturne The TV goes dead, killing all the newscasters. Go, loud satraps of the night, leave us alone with darkness and ourselves.

Oppression is no longer centralized, for it is everywhere. The positive aspect of this disintegration is that everyone begins to see, in their state of almost complete isolation, that they must first save themselves, make themselves the centre, and from their own subjectivity build a world where they can be at home anywhere.

the economy cannot stop making us consume more and more, and to consume without respite is to change illusions at an accelerating pace which gradually dissolves the illusion of change. We find ourselves alone, unchanged, frozen in the empty space behind the waterfall of gadgets, family cars and paperbacks.

Like the characters in the short novel Men in the Sun, by the Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani, however, they did not always find this route easy, for it often involved alienation, isolation, and, as when Palestinians attempted to cross frontiers with their refugee papers, even tragedy

No puedo recordar a mi hermana, me pregunto sin embargo qué acerca a la gente al cañón de una escopeta y qué nos mantiene al resto alejados.

The silence of winter has already been broken by birdsong from crossbills, heralding the onset of spring. At one with the forest. For this man, the boreal forest is his home, his provider and he looks to the forest for the things he needs to live. He has no sense of isolation. He is a simple talker. This

There's no ambient noise, none of the background aural wallpaper that defines life in an urban environment or even in the English countryside. This is the sort of quiet that you only get in truly remote places.

The course of urban development in America is pushing the individual toward that line seperating proud independence from pitiable isolation.

calling a subdivision a "community," for that is precisely what it is not.

and by the 1790s, isolated acts of violence escalated into full-scale hostilities. Once again, Native Americans wound up fighting each other because of their differences in strategies: whether to accommodate or resist the white Americans.

I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars.

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

The only advantage he could see in the change was that he had a small desk in his room; his capacity for isolation was thereby increased. But none of this changed his life very much. He continued his games of billiards and his reading. And was periodically overwhelmed by abominable fits of despair from which he was abruptly extricated by a ridiculous but stubborn optimism, an absurd love of life.

So it is no surprise that we cannot find free will in this isolated movement in a laboratory, if we treat it as an isolated movement.

I have a hundred million fans, Angela, but I have very few friends.

When I am on my own, I get nervous and have butterflies.

I barely leave my cage, my house.