Quotes About Isolation

Tako, u tajnovitosti, porodica Fortunj pusti da pro?u godine, u?utkuju?i svoja srca i svoje duše, do trenutka kad, od tolikog ?utanja, zaboraviše re?i za izražavanje svojih pravih ose?anja i pretvoriše se u strance koji su živeli zajedno pod istim krovom, jednim od tolikih u beskrajnom gradu.

I was still trapped in that dark, gloomy dining room where I now imagined Nuria Monfort sitting alone, silently tidying up her pencils, her folders, and her memories, her eyes poisoned with tears

Senti-me rodeado por milhares de páginas abandonadas, de universos e almas sem dono, que se fundiam em um oceano de escuridão enquanto o mundo que palpitava do lado de fora daquelas paredes perdia a memória sem perceber, dia após dia, sentindo-se mais sábio quanto mais esquecia.

Šest dana tijekom kojih je ne?e vidjeti, ni dodirnuti, ?inili su mu se kao ?itava vje?nost.

I got the feeling that Julián was living in the past, locked in his memories. Julián lived within himself, for his books and inside them—a comfortable prison of his own design." "You say this as if you envied him." "There are worse prisons than words, Daniel.

I looked at him and saw a lonely man, devoid of hope. I knew what I was doing when I took him home and let myself be seduced by him. I knew I was deceiving him and that he knew, too, but had nothing else in the world. That is how we became lovers, out of desperation.

In this manner, secretly, ....let the years go by, silencing their hearts and souls to the point where, from so much keeping quiet, they forgot the words with which to express their real feelings and became strangers...

In this manner, secretly, the Fortuny family let the years go by, silencing their hearts and their souls to the point where, from so much keeping quiet, they forgot the words with which to express their real feelings and became strangers living under the same roof, like so many other families in the vast city.

I left the lunatic sitting on his bed with his out-of-date newspaper and his up-to-date speeches.

Well then, since we're playing at telling the truth, let me tell you that you're always going to be alone. You'll be alone because you don't know how to love or how to share. You're like this house. It makes my hair stand on end. I'm not surprised your lady in white left you or that everyone else has too. You don't love and you don't allow yourself to be loved. p269

Ese lugar, el último refugio, es un pequeño anexo del alma al que, cuando el mundo naufraga en su absurda comedia, uno siempre puede correr a encerrarse y extraviar la llave.

The scenery is colorless and depressing. It looks as though life in Hell is very harsh. And lonely. Very, very lonely.

The stars are filming us for no one.

I feel kind of bad for him," I said. "All he wants is to be left alone. I wish we could help him somehow." I sighed. "But we do have to check out his story." "I don't know how we can check out whether he was at Rainbow Lake," Ashley said. "Who would we ask--the fish?

The men, her husband and sons, leave for the quarry at seven o'clock sharp and return at five. What do they imagine she does all day? It makes her shiver to think of it, how not one pair of eyes can see through the roof and walls of her house and regard her as she moves through her dreamlike days, bargaining from minute to minute with indolence, that tempter.

A bedjacket speaks of desperation, and what it says is: toodle-oo.

Something, someone, cut off her head, yanked out her tongue. My mother is a middle-aged woman, a middle-class woman, a woman of moderate intelligence and medium-sized ego and average good luck, so that you would expect her to land somewhere near the middle of the world. Instead she's over there at the edge. The least vibration could knock her off.

A deterioration has occurred to the fabric of the world, the world that does not belong to her as she has been told. Again and again and again. She is prohibited from entering. From now on life will seem less and less like life.

Lark did not know how her parents would behave in public. They never came to anything, even teacher conferences. They had basically skipped Lark's life. She didn't mind. She had made her own.

Kahnawake April 20, 1704 Temperature 56 degrees Mercy's only hope for friendship was Nistenha's cousin's daughter, Snow Walker, who was a frequent visitor and pleasant enough. But Indians were less likely to talk for the sake of talk and Snow Walker hardly talked at all. Snow Walker for a friend would be like a fence post for a friend.

Perhaps nobody knows anybody..It was a terrifying thought: like the alone. That you could know people well, and know them again the following year, and then know them more...and yet remain strangers forever.

WE ARE ALL AFRAID of being alone. To teenagers, the idea of being alone is almost as bad as the idea of dying, which at least has a certain romantic appeal.

Always, a shift in awareness includes a period of isolation and loneliness as one gets accustomed to the new level of truth. And then always, new companions are found. No one is left alone for long.

I couldn't find Dr. Flemming among the audience, either. So, Duke, Flemming, and Stockton had all ditched. Did that make me the last one standing? Did that mean I won? What, exactly, did I win?