Quotes About Isolation

There is no such thing as a truly single person, only a lonely one. Humans are porous in the borders of our skins, these walking micro cities.

You'll freeze out here," he said. What did he know? I was already a sheet of ice, a frozen branch, a twig. I could freeze in my own house, if I wanted to. The man's eyes darted down the road. I was an icy slip of nothing. I was invincible.

He said, "Only you." I was alone and he was alone and we had nothing in common short of being human at night.

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Prison is a second-by-second assault on the soul, a day-to-day degradation of the self, an oppressive steel and brick umbrella that transforms seconds into hours and hours into days.

You can't expect everybody to think of you all the time. Nobody knows you. And you never talk to anyone!

You have spent your whole life believing such untrue things. Don't you know how alone you are, David? We are most alone when we are with the myths.

The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.

A desert is a place without expectation.

A man from another hemisphere, another background, coming to rest in middle life in the cottage of a half-neglected estate, an estate full of reminders of its Edwardian past, with few connections with the present. An oddity among the estates and big houses of the valley, and I a further oddity in its grounds. I felt unanchored and strange.

In]the too solid three-dimensional city, I could never feel myself as anything but spectral, disintegrating, pointless, fluid.

The worst is being alone and not having someone with whom I can share life, someone who sees the world from the same narrow ledge I'm standing on and who understands without always having to be explained to.

For purely selfish reasons, the old man had preserved what the rest of the world had destroyed.

Matt was strapped to a bed in a room full of alarming machinery.

At one point Willum and two strange doctors appeared and proceeded to poke Matt's stomach and take his blood. They untied him so he could pee into a bottle

Adversity is solitary, while prosperity dwells in a crowd.

Thus it is ever in Courts," she observed bitterly. "Adversity is solitary, while prosperity dwells in a crowd.

The duchess of Retz, who was fluent in Latin and Greek (languages she had acquired as a result of her first husband's frustrating lack of sociability, which had obliged her to live like a hermit out in the countryside for years, with only her books for company), was especially interested in the literary arts.

They spoke as though these Princes are so remote from life as we know it that the smallest sign of humanity, the mere fact even that they communicated by means of speech, was worth noting and proclaiming.

He thought of the lonely evening ahead of him and wondered whether he should telephone to some of his friends, but decided that it would be of little use. They would all be doing things by now. He also thought of the wonderful energy of other people, of how they not only had the energy to do things all day but also to make arrangements and plans for these things which they did. It as as much as he could manage to do the things, he knew that he would never be able to make the plans as well.

I have for a long time felt that our society is becoming more and more fractured and divisive and that you could go a whole day without really talking to another person. If you give people a good book to talk about, you can build a community out of a diverse group. A common language grows out of it.

She lay all too aware of how frost stiffened her hair, furred her blankets.

Solitude opens all closed doors, even those nailed shut.

I will see you bereft of all that you have, of home and happiness and beautiful things. I will see your nation cast down and your allies drawn away. I will see you as alone and friendless and wretched as am I; and then you may live as long as you like, in some dark and lonely corner of the earth, and I shall call myself content. -Lien, Albino Celestial (Dragon)