Quotes About Isolation

Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is a crock. Some people truly do not need to be here.

Your momma and daddy leave you at some point, and then you are on your own.

there's a difference between having no one because you've chosen it and having no one because everyone has been taken away.

It was wise to put bureaucrats in windowless offices.

Dag na dag, een deel van iedere nacht, zaten wij naast elkaar als vreemden. Glimlachende maskers en levenloze opgevulde pronkgewaden: markies en markiezin van Pescara.

In the end everyone, or not quite everyone, made friends again in order not to be stuffy or righteous. I did too. But I could never make friends again truly, neither in my heart nor in my head. When you cannot make friends any more in your head is the worst. But it was more complicated than that.

Nessuno dovrebbe mai restar solo, da vecchio.

Il embrassa la mer d'un regard et se rendit compte de l'infinie solitude où il se trouvait

There is no lonelier man than a writer when he's writing, except the suicide.

But then an old man was discovered impaled in a ditch, and once again his world had started crumbling away beneath his feet. He wondered how long he could keep this up.

It struck Wallander that nothing could make him as depressed as the sight of old spectacles that nobody wanted anymore.

More and more people were being judged useless and were being flung to the margins of society, where they were destined to look back enviously at the few who still had reasons to be happy. He

What we're in is a vacuum.

That is about as close as one can get to the greatest loneliness of all, he thought. Being all alone in the world. The final human being, forgotten about.

Forse diventare adulto significa rendersi conto della propria solitudine

El dodo no sabía lo que era un enemigo. Y por eso, lógicamente, lo consideraron tonto.

There is a silence in empty houses that is unique... People have left and taken all the noise with them.

Being a refugee meant being lonely. This was something that was true for them all, regardless of what country they had come from or what circumstances had forced them to flee.

The people in the refugee camp, so varied in their language, dress, and terrible experiences -- imparted through a look or sometimes words -- had only this in common: nothing to look forward to.

I ask myself everyday what my life is doing to me and I realize I don't have anybody I can talk to. You should have said the Doctor everybody should.

Era sfinito, eppure non sentiva alcun desiderio di andare a casa. Ogni sera era la stessa cosa. Tornare a casa significava affrontare un oceano di solitudine.

call. I spent the next few hours playing poker with myself. It's the saddest expression of loneliness I know. I never feel more overwhelmed by weariness and unhappiness than when I'm trying to win money off myself. There is no deeper form of isolation.

But human withdrawal is a very painful and lonely process, because it forces us to face directly our own condition in all its beauty as well as misery.

I have found over and over again how hard it is to be truly faithful to Jesus when I am alone.