Quotes About Isolation

Have I been clear enough? The world is dying, is in fact already well on its way to being dead. Were it not, you never would never have wandered in here. You would never have occasion to think, what is this? An unoccupied bunker in which to shelter myself? What luck! And then have fallen into my trap. You instead would have a job in a small town as an accountant, say, or a data specialist.

Don't ask for help. Don't need anyone else, because they won't be there for you.

Everybody lived like a character in a one-act play that nobody understood; getting by from one moment to the next was like trying to hold on to your hat in a gusty wind.

You've been there before?" "Twenty-odd years ago on the U-2 program." Ross was intrigued; he's still a collegiate at heart — young enough to be eager-beaverish. "What's it like up there?" "The end of the world.

The longer he spent in the apartment the more terrifying the outside world became. He

Arisha noticed that all the greenery and trees were dying the more they walked on. They finally arrived at a large clearing of a hidden valley. But it was desert like, bounded by the foothills of the mountains on one side and the dry rocky bluffs on the other. It seemed strange to Arisha. It seemed like a little pocket of dry desert death in the midst of an otherwise lively area. She stopped, stunned by the sight before her.

Adam sat with Havah next to him, listening to the conversation. She never left his side. They were inseparable, and not because he needed her guidance with mobility. They were all alone in the world, and they only had each other. Despite the community of love around them, they would always have a pain too deep, a woundedness, that separated them from everyone and everything in this world. So they clung to each other with a subtle desperation.

Noah had complained for so long about wanting to be left alone. Now he had his wish—to the utmost. He was finally, totally and utterly, alone. And he realized what a complete selfish fool he had been.

Although Miss Peebles remained in charge of Princess Anne, she was aloof and seemed totally disinterested, and two years later she was found dead, alone in her room at Buckingham Palace. Charles was deeply distressed when she was discovered. Princess Anne said later that her only reaction was guilt because she didn't feel anything.

We're all aliens to someone. Even among our own people, most of us still feel like complete foreigners from time to time.

Neighbors aren't really neighbors anymore. They're strangers, for the most part.

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

There I was, cold, isolated and desperate for something I knew I couldn't have. A solution. A remedy. Anything. ...I hated it. Alone and confused was the last place I wanted to be. Somehow I knew I deserved this.

Abrir el corazón] tiene muchísima relación no sólo con la calidad de vida sino también con su cantidad, es decir, con su duración. [...] La soledad y el aislamiento aumentan el riesgo de enfermedad y de muerte prematura por cualquier motivo, entre un doscientos y un quinientos por ciento. [...] Cuando

Anonymous sex, he wrote, 'only deepens one's sense of loneliness and solves nothing.

And the bell jangled, the driver started. The bus whirled off, to the last stop, the lonely room, the lonely night.

Isolation disfigures men Who think their separateness superior.

She has a job where she is around swarms of people all day long, and she's still lonely. He

It occurred to him that perhaps all his life he had only been hearing echoes of himself, and that his morality, on which he had once prided himself, was merely a refusal to permit other people into his life.

An overcrowded world is the ideal place in which to be lonely.

It's a funny thing in my job: you remain perpetually lonely in a world where loneliness is the rarest commodity.

they simply want to be alone.

It's so quiet. More than anything, the silence makes me feel what I've lost. The Earth is no longer ours.

Twenty miles out of town. A million miles from the life you left behind.