Quotes About Isolation

I am beginning to feel this nocturnal existence tell on me.

The traces of such an illness as his do not lightly die away. We should have written long ago, but we knew nothing of his friends, and there was nothing on him, nothing that anyone could understand. He came in the train from Klausenburg, and

everywhere, and all locked and bolted. In no place save from the windows in the castle walls is there an available exit. The castle is a veritable prison, and I am a prisoner!

The clock was striking one as I was in the Crescent, and there was not a soul in sight. --10 August

work with heavy heart and feel oh so lonely when I want all help and courage that may be!

Mas um estranho em uma terra estrangeira, ele não é ninguém; os homens não o conhecem, e não conhecer é não cuidar.

Pero un extranjero en una tierra extranjera, no es nadie; los hombres no lo conocen, y no conocer es no importar.

Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the moonlit sky.

Ans then there was silence, deep awful silence, which chilled me.

The clock was striking one as I was in the Crescent, and there was not a soul in sight.

There was a coldness and loneliness in the world, and I felt that I had lost something without getting anything in return...

Hello, cell. How are you? Still dank and dirty? Me? I've taken up a new habit: talking to my cell. It's like talking to myself but slightly more pathetic.

Whatever you do, Seth said around a chewy mouthful, try not to leave me down here too long. You can only play a certain amount of Yahtzee games in a row before you become a lunatic. I'll keep that in mind.

Remember, if something goes wrong, if you need anything at all, you're absolutely on your own.

Hanover House?" "That, or it's possible someone just thinks it's funny. But if I find out who that someone is, I'm going to make them awfully sorry." He stepped back and told his dog to go inside with her. "Makita will stay with you until I check things out." She nodded and closed the door so that Makita wouldn't be tempted to follow

Sprawling over 435 acres, San Quentin was a contained city of the dammed, complete with its own zip code. According to anyone who'd been there, that was Hell, California 94964.

No one seemed to understand that she hadn't chosen to be standoffish. That was simply a byproduct of what she'd been through.

The fact is, there's a difference between being alone and being lonely; I may not of been completely alone in life, but I was definitely lonely.

You're all trying to figure out what went wrong inside my head. Fucking idiots. You'll never crack the code that's inside my head. You'll never get into my castle. You'll never even get past the gate.

I was surprised that every single person I talked to had a story about how depression had affected their lives. Carmelita Gamboa, a teenager in Michigan, later wrote to me, The sad thing is, after a while, it starts to feel like home. It does, doesn't it?

No one will ever know anyone. We just have to deal with each other. You're not ever gonna know me.

And though I can hide my cold gaze, and you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours and maybe you can even sense our lifestyles are probably comparable... I simply am not there.

I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you've always lived.)

People are afraid to merge.