Quotes About Isolation

Last night was last night. Rayojini was a loner; she did not thirst for a satellite.

You were a lonely child," Tiy pronounced, "and you are a lonely woman.

Bayard is not exactly the sort of person anyone could describe as a friend," he said. "He exists in a universe populated solely by himself.

As Ishtahar is kept from me, so are you, in a different kind of way.

We come from different sides of the shore. You have your rock, I have mine. When the beach is clear and the tide is low, we can talk across the sand. But we cannot leave our rocks, and sometimes the waves make it impossible for us to hear one another.

I realise, as I stand swaying on the splintered slabs, that I have lost the thread of real life. It is stretching to an infinite thinness. And I am losing the equally fragile thread of sanity; it will not be long.

Even though she stood beyond the shadow, she had to shiver.

He's an insular creature, yet aware his knowledge is too great to die with him. My mere presence reminds him he is mortal, although I suspect he will live the equivalent of four lifetimes before he finally succumbs to death.

The narrow streets and modest plazas were empty of life and slick with rain, while above them the soaring ateliers brooded, their dark windows as blank as weary eyes.

They were not quite like any humans I had met; perhaps touched with his difference, contaminated by the strangeness of his eternal solitude.

Even in my most secluded moments, I was never truly alone.

Fey little maid. So lonely, and yet not.

Better to suffer the loneliness of the cold throne room than endure the isolation to be found within the crowds of facile courtiers.

I spun around: the room was so empty, I wasn't even in it.

That's the trouble with care in the community – nobody does.

The real me died years ago. I died and I went to hell. This is hell.

More and more we are into communications; and less and less into communication.

la pioggia rompeva tutti gli angoli della notte e non ne lasciava intero neanche un pezzetto.

She's annihilating herself." "Alienating herself," Janet says. "I meant what I said," Mircia says.

Place is of consequence only to the extent that it encourages or demands the confrontation of the self by the self, which is solitude's true vocation.

Being the "best you can be" is really only possible when you are deeply connected to another. Splendid isolation is for planets, not people.

Sociologist James House of the University of Michigan declares that emotional isolation is a more dangerous health risk than smoking or high blood pressure, and we now warn everyone about these two!

Louise Hawkley, of the Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience at the University of Chicago, calculates that loneliness raises blood pressure to the point where the risk of heart attack and stroke is doubled.

And for two weeks I was banged up with a Hobbit who only spoke Elvish," said Jess.