Quotes About Isolation

Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.

There are all these people here I don't know by sight or by name. And we pass alongside each other and don't have any connection. And they don't know me and I don't know them. And now I'm leaving town and there are all these people I will never know.

It happened that green and crazy summer when Frankie was twelve years old. This was the summer when for a long time she had not been a member. She belonged to no club and was a member of nothing in the world. Frankie had become an unjoined person and hung around in doorways, and she was afraid.

His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.

The way I need you is a loneliness I cannot bear

It was like she was so empty there wasn't even a feeling or thought in her.

It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.

The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.....

In the town there were two mutes, and they were always together.

After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.

But now no music was in her mind. That was a funny thing. It was like she was shut out from the inside room. Sometimes a quick little tune would come and go - but she never went into the inside room with music like she used to do. It was like she was too tense. Or maybe because it was like the store took all her energy and time . . . She wanted to stay in the inside room but she didn't know how. It was like the inside room was locked somewhere away from her. A very hard thing to understand.

But now no music was in her mind. That was a funny thing. It was like she was shut out from the inside room. Sometimes a quick little tune would come and go - but she never went into the inside room with music like she used to do. It was like she was too tense. Or maybe because it was like the store took all her energy and time . . . She wanted to stay on the inside room but she didn't know how. It was like the inside room was locked somewhere away from her. A very hard thing to understand.

With her it was like there was two places—the inside room and the outside room.

It looks to me like everything has just walked off and left me

The loneliness in him was so keen that he was filled with terror. Usually he had a pint of bootleg white lightning. He drank the raw liquor and by daylight he was warm and relaxed.

Then when he had washed the ashtray and the glass he brought out a pistol from his pocket and put a bullet in his chest.

Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone. The silence of a firelit room when suddenly the clock stops ticking, the nervous shadows in an empty house — it is better to take in your mortal enemy than face the terror of living alone.

Lo terrible, en mi caso, es que durante mucho tiempo no he sido más que un Yo. Todo el mundo forma parte de un Nosotros, salvo yo. Si uno no forma parte de un Nosotros, se siente verdaderamente demasiado solo».

Each day was very much like any other day, because they were alone so much that nothing ever disturbed them.

She belonged to no club and was a member of nothing in the world.

Mister Singer reminded her of this music. She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram full of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.

The three of them sat at the kitchen table, saying the same things over and over, so that by August the words began to rhyme with each other and sound strange.

She hated herself, and had become a loafer and a big no-good who hung around the summer kitchen: dirty and greedy and mean and sad.

It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see