Quotes About Isolation

This person realizes that staying home means blowing off everyone this person has ever known. But the desire to stay in is very strong. This person wants to run a bath and then read in bed.

AÅŸ suferi mai mult dac? aÅŸ fi respins. Iar eu vreau s? înving întotdeauna. De aceea m? ar?t retras, dispreÅ£uitor. N?d?jduiesc într-un timp când munca m? va în?lÅ£a destul ca s? atrag privirile. SuferinÅ£ele mele - pân? atunci - nu le va cunoaÅŸte nimeni.

My religion: Very seldom do I feel a need for the presence of God. I don't pray and I don't know how to pray. When I enter a church, I try to pray, but I can't tell if I succeed or not. But often I have religious "attacks": the desire for isolation, for contemplation far from other people. Despair. The desire (and the hope) for asceticism.

Odat?, când eram mic, m? întorceam acas? într-un car cu fân. Asta se petrecea la via noastr? de lâng? Râmnicu-S?rat. Adormisem È™i m-am trezit deodat?, singur în carul cu fân - È™i deasupra mea erau numai stele. Erau numai stele. ?i parc? totul se oprise pe loc. Parc? timpul nu mai curgea. Nu erau decât stele.

Un gând izvorât ÅŸi organizat în singur?tate e întodeauna un gând neterminat.Nu pentru c? cel care îl gândeÅŸte nu are curajul sau puterea s?-l duc? mai departe.Ci pur ÅŸi simplul pentru c?,dup? o anumit? margine,nu-l mai interseaz?.

Se va spune, o generaÅ£ie, atâta timp cât nu se încheie, e o fluid? continuitate, palpitând de via?? ÅŸi deci de contradicÅ£ii. A încerca s? o surprinzi în linii, a o izola, a o fixa în caractere - e cel puÅ£in neÅŸtiinÅ£ific. Sufletul unei generaÅ£ii e greu de reconstituit chiar cu ajutorul timpului, al istoriei.

It's a humiliation that you don't forget, and even early in life you learn the pain of rejection because your body isn't wanted.

There are no windows within the dark house of depression through which to see others, only mirrors.

We stopped talking for a long, long time. A long time. Nurses came and went attaching and detaching things. Hundreds of thousands of babies were born while we weren't talking. The continents continued to separate at the same page as fingernails growing.

Wild was the worst thing you could become in a community rigged for compliance.

I feel safe in the car, alone and protected. I can see people milling about in the parking lot but they can't see me. Well, they can but they think I'm insane so they look away which is the same as being invisible.

So much of what exists in the outside world is kept out of Molotschna, but curses, like pain, always find a way in.

And when the perpetrators return, the women of Molotschna will be given the opportunity to forgive these men, thus guaranteeing everyone's place in heaven. If the women don't forgive the men, says Peters, the women will have to leave the colony for the outside world, of which they know nothing. The women have very little time. Only two days, to organise their response.

Klaus will not look at Ona or acknowledge anything she says. Ona is a ghost to him or less because of her 'Narfa', her spinsterdom and her burgeoning belly. I have observed that being a ghost suits Ona.

Extremist, closed communities are ripe for violence.

During that time, The Mouth came by to pray with us, and my dad began to spend his evenings sitting in the yellow lawn chair and staring at the highway, or down in the basement with his isotope material, finding comfort in the stability that's created from decay.

Treba ostati logi?an, jer bilo kako bilo, logika nikada nije nepouzdan vodi?. Istina je: bio sam prili?no sam, ali osamljenost još uvijek nije dokaz da ?ovjek nema pravo.

S ljudima zajedno smrdi, ali je toplo. U samo?ama – prazno.

Istina je: bio sam prili?no sam ali osamljenost još uvijek nije dokaz da ?ovjek nema pravo

If others neither have goods we want nor can perform services we need, we make sure that they are at a safe distance and close ourselves off from them so that their emaciated and tortured bodies can make no inordinate claims on us.

When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.

Secrets tear you apart.

Silence is worse when you know it won't be broken.

You can touch everything and be connected to nothing.