Quotes About Isolation

A man found himself when he was alone. You only had one person to chat with, one person to blame. He

Everywhere I step, I find only corners," Father whispered. "Slowly, they trap me.

This is going to be about zombies. I'm calling it now.

Silence spread from him like a bad smell.

Better for everyone to not have to deal with me

This is nice. Very roomy for a shack on a mountainside in the middle of a deadly jungle on an isolated island surrounded by monsters.

Kaladin no había sabido, al criarse en el remoto Piedralar, lo afortunado que era su pueblo al haber evitado la batalla. El mundo entero guerreaba

There's a lot of people out there who go through hard times, and they feel alone. They feel like nobody is there. But I'm in the same boat.

All is lost again, but I'm not giving in, I will not bow, I will not break, I will shut the world away

Somewhere far beyond this world, I feel nothing anymore

God send for the hopeless.... I'm the one You left behind.

I will not bow, I will not break, I will shut the world away.

We will live on mangoes and love.

A writer, no matter what the context, is made an outsider by the demands of his vocation

Not enough of us know how to sit in pain with others. Worse, our discomfort shows up in ways that can hurt people and reinforce their own isolation. I have started to believe that crying with strangers in person could save the world.

There will be times when standing alone feels too hard, too scary, and we'll doubt our ability to make our way through the uncertainty. Someone, somewhere, will say, "Don't do it. You don't have what it takes to survive the wilderness." This is when you reach deep into your wild heart and remind yourself, "I am the wilderness.

When we're anxious, disconnected, vulnerable, alone, and feeling helpless, the booze and food and work and endless hours online feel like comfort, but in reality they're only casting their long shadows over our lives.

The more difficult it is for us to articulate our experiences of loss, longing, and feeling lost to the people around us, the more disconnected and alone we feel.

The world feels high lonesome and heartbroken to me right now. We've sorted ourselves into factions based on our politics and ideology. We've turned away from one another and toward blame and rage. We're lonely and untethered. And scared. So damn scared.

We believe that the most terrifying and destructive feeling that a person can experience is psychological isolation. This is not the same as being alone. It is a feeling that one is locked out of the possibility of human connection and of being powerless to change the situation.

In a short evolutionary time, we have changed17 from group-living primates skilled at reading each other's every gesture and intention to a solitary species, each one of us preoccupied with our own screen.

When we feel isolated, disconnected, and lonely, we try to protect ourselves. In that mode, we want to connect, but our brain is attempting to override connection with self-protection. That means less empathy, more defensiveness, more numbing, and less sleeping.

Technology, for instance, has become a kind of imposter for connection, making us believe we're connected when we're really not—at least not in the ways we need to be.

are certainly other causes of illness, numbing, and hurt, but the absence of love and belonging will always lead to suffering.