Quotes About Isolation

I can't escape from here. Not because it's too high but because I've nowhere to go.

During abstinence, I'm frightened of rustling noises, people are hateful to me. I'm afraid of them. During the euphoria I love them all, but I prefer solitude.

The right place to live is behind cream-coloured blinds.

Saya tadinya bersedia mencintai seluruh dunia, tapi tak seorang pun mengerti saya: jadi saya belajar membenci

Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country where he has his family, colleagues, and friends, and where he can easily say what he has to say in a language he has known from childhood.

I cannot hate them because nothing binds me to them; I have nothing in common with them.

A man who loses his privacy loses everything. And a man who gives it up of his own free will is a monster.

Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.

The basis of the self is not thought but suffering, which is the most fundamental of all feelings. While it suffers, not even a cat can doubt its unique and uninterchangeable self. In intense suffering the world disappears and each of us is alone with his self. Suffering is the university of ego-centrism.

It's not your enemies who condemn you to solitude, it's your friends

Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic conditions: - (1) an elevated level of general well being which allows people to devote themselves to useless activities (2) a high degree of social atomization and , as a consequence, a general isolation of individuals; (3) the absence of dramatic social changes in the nation's internal life.

He thought: that's certainly how it starts. One day a person puts his legs up on a bench, then night comes and he falls asleep. That's how it happens that one fine day a person joins the tramps and turns into one of them.

and she realized that she (her soul) was not at all involved, only her body, her body alone. The body that had betrayed her and that she had sent out into the world among other bodies.

It was as though she has found refuge inside a shell and the only sound she could hear was the sea of an inimical world.

The physical contact with people who struck and trampled and killed one another seemed far worse to him than a solitary death in the purity of the waters.

The future is only an indifferent void no one cares about.

It seemed to me an error in reasoning for a man to isolate a woman he loves from all the circumstances in which he met her and in which she lives, to try, with dogged inner concentration, to purify her of everything that is not her self, which is to say also of the story that they lived through together and that gives their love its shape.

Çünkü herkes ilgisiz bir evren içinde görülüp iÅŸitilmeden yokolup gideceÄŸi düÅŸüncesiyle ac? çekmektedir. Bu yüzden, daha vakit varken, kendisini sözcüklerden oluÅŸan bir evrene dönüÅŸtürmek ister.

Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far-off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding

Irena went to the window to savor the freedom of solitude.

Hiçbir tehlike olmamas?na raÄŸmen, hayat?ndaki bir an?n diÄŸer bütün anlar gibi hiçliÄŸe dönüÅŸecek yerde zaman?n ak???ndan kopar?laca??n? ve gün gelip aptalca bir rastlant?n?n sonucunda iyi gömülmemiÅŸ bir ceset gibi canland?r?laca??n? düÅŸünerek belli bir s?k?nt? duymaktan alam?yordu kendini.

A man who loses his privacy loses everything, Sabina thought.

Y un día, al salir del trabajo, no fue a su casa, sino que salió de la ciudad. No veía nada a su alrededor, no sabía si era verano, otoño o invierno, si caminaba por la orilla del mar o junto al muro de una fábrica; hacía ya mucho que no vivía en el mundo; su único mundo era su alma.

no puedo odiarlos porque nada me une a ellos; no tengo nada que ver con ellos.