Quotes About Isolation

She didn't even want to think of how hellish it would be if all the MacGregors made her feel like this one did, all hot and shaky. She'd have to move to the Arctic Circle before the month was out just to cool off.

She kissed her like she'd been stranded on an island, notching each stranded day onto a fallen coconut, slowly losing her mind. She filled Michelle like weather, worked her mouth like a cherry stem being tongued into a knot.

Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not. Either thought is frightening. –ARTHUR C. CLARKE

Ya existen salvaguardas contra la liberación de virus tan peligrosos, pero hay que tomar medidas para reforzarlas y añadir nuevas capas de protección. En particular, si se produce un brote de un nuevo virus en algún lugar remoto de la Tierra, los científicos deben tener preparados equipos de respuesta rápida, que puedan aislar el virus en la naturaleza, secuenciar sus genes y preparar rápidamente una vacuna para impedir su propagación.

I don't like people. I don't like any kind of people. When you get them together in a big lump they all get nasty and dirty and full of trouble. So I don't like people including you. That's what a misanthropist is.

Todos los homicidas incurren en alguno. En especial los que matan a sangre fría, cerebralmente. Su crimen suele estar perfectamente planeado. Pero están solos para vigilar la perfecta ejecución de sus planes mientras que, de nuestro lado, hay muchos cerebros concentrados en la solución del mismo problema.

We want our freedom; we want to be ourselves, but we are also afraid to be by ourselves.

people who are suffering in hell don't want to be all alone.

But as soon as we are alone, the Judge becomes so strong, the guilt is so strong, and we feel so stupid, or so bad, or so unworthy.

De afar?, noaptea se uita pe fereastr?.

A hideg és a félelem állandóan útitársamul szegÅ'dött, valósággal megtébolyított.

Fear is a serviceable tool, I suppose. Like the stalls in a battery farm. If you want to keep people from their collective strength, make them too afraid of each other to ever meet or talk.

Dead, blank, empty air surrounded me, like the moment after the fridge stops humming and you think the silence is a new sound.

Keterpencilan kota itu mungkin lebih pada masalah waktu ketimbang jarak.

The best a writer can hope for is hatred by the masses, revulsion among one's peers.

This was at dusk, in mid-October. And she left. I lay down on the sofa and fell asleep without turning on the light. I was awakened by the feeling that the octopus was there. Groping in the dark, I barely managed to turn on the light. My pocket watch showed two o'clock in the morning. I was falling ill when I went to bed, and I woke up sick. It suddenly seemed to me that the autumn darkness would push through the glass and pour into the room, and I would drown in it as in ink.

For an addict there is one pleasure of which no one can deprive him—his ability to spend his time in absolute solitude. And solitude means deep, significant thought; it means, calm, contemplation—and wisdom.

She had a look of suffering and I was struck less by her beauty than by the extraordinary loneliness in her eyes.

Jesus to Pilate: The trouble is, the bound man went on, not stopping by anyone, that you are too closed off and have definitely lost faith in people. You must agree, one can't place all one's affection in a dog. Your life is impoverished, Hegemon.

A morphine addict has one piece of good fortune, which nobody can take away from him—the capacity to spend his life in total solitude. And solitude means important, significant ideas, it means contemplation, tranquillity, wisdom...

I zacz?? klaska?, ale klaska? w zupe?nym osamotnieniu, jego ?miech wyra?a? pewno?? siebie, ale w oczach nie mia? te pewno?ci za grosz, patrzy?y one raczej b?agalnie.

The rain is streaming down and shrouding the outside world from my sight. Long may it do so. I don't need the world any more, and no one in the world needs me. I was in the clinic while the shooting and the coup d'etat took place, but the idea of abandoning the cure had begun insidiously to grow in my mind even before the fighting started in the streets of Moscow. I have the morphine to thank for making me brave. I'm not afraid of rifle fire now.

The trouble is,' the bound man went on, not stopped by anyone, 'that you are too closed off and have definitively lost faith in people. You must agree, one can't place all ones affection in a dog. Your life is impoverished, Hegemon.

For an addict there is one pleasure of which no one can deprive him—his ability to spend his time in absolute solitude. And solitude means deep, significant thought; it means, calm, contemplation—and wisdom. The night flows on, black and silent. Somewhere out there is the bare leafless forest, beyond it the river, the chill air of autumn. Far away lies the strife-torn, restless city of Moscow. Nothing concerns me, I need nothing and there is nowhere for me to go.