Quotes About Isolation

I had to spend my entire childhood in the Altensam dungeon like an inmate doing time for no comprehensible reason, for a crime he can't remember committing, a judicial error probably.

Ich kenne die Natur überhaupt nicht und ich hasse sie, denn sie bringt mich um.

But instead of thinking about my book and how to write it, as I go pacing the floor, I fall to counting my footsteps until I feel about to go mad.

On the one hand we can't be alone, people like us; on the other we can't stand company. We can't stand male company, which bores us to death, or female company either. I gave up male company for years because it's totally unprofitable, and female company gets on my nerves in no time.

Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them. VOLTAIRE

Und ich denke heute, die Menschen, die in unserem Leben wirklich etwas bedeutet haben, können wir an den Fingern einer Hand abzählen und sehr oft sträubt sich sogar diese eine Hand gegen die Perversität, in welcher wir glauben, eine ganze Hand zum Abzählen dieser Menschen heranziehen zu müssen, wo wir doch, wenn wir ehrlich sind, wahrscheinlich ohne einen einzigen Finger auskommen.

We don't have to be ashamed, but we are nothing, and we earn nothing but chaos.

But the city doesn't grab anyone under the arms: on the contrary, it constantly seeks to fend off the unfortunate people who repair to it in search of a career, to destroy them and annihilate them.

He was the only world-famous piano virtuoso who abhorred his public and also actually withdrew definitively from this abhorred public.

The loser was a born loser, I thought, he has always been the loser and if we observe the people around us carefully we notice that these people consist almost entirely of losers like him, I said to myself, of

There is nothing more dreadful than having to go walking on one's own on Monday.

We keep silent about what we know, and make good progress, so Roithamer.

Tih sam se zadnjih godina prije Rima bio usredoto?io još samo na samoga sebe i pritom najgrublje i najneoprostivije zanemario samoga sebe. Prije svega sam umno, ali i tjelesno oronuo. Postao sam skroz-naskroz oronuo ?ovjek. Skroz-naskroz bolestan, netrpeljiv, nepodnošljivo sumnji?av kao malo tko, skoro sam se ugušio u neprestanom samopromatranju i razglabanju o sebi. Bio sam posve zaboravio da osim moga užasnoga postoji i neki drugi svijet koji nije samo užasan.

It is not just Gould's playing but the fact that he stopped playing, turned his back on the world, that fascinated Bernhard. It

When you have lost your closest human being everything seems empty to you, look wherever you like, everything is empty, and you look and look and you see that everything is really empty and, what is more, for ever, Reger said. And you realize that it was not those great minds and not those old masters which kept you alive for decades but that it was this one single person whom you loved more than anyone else.

Durerea mi-a vorbit astfel:Tu nu e?ti om.E?ti o f?ptur? care nu se poate amesteca printre oameni.O vie?uitoare cam trist? ?i ciudat?,e?ti departe de a fi om

Ciascuno di noi è completamente isolato in se stesso, anche se tra noi il legame è strettissimo. La vita intera non è altro che un tentativo ininterrotto di ritrovarci.

Bosque, monte alto, tala.

Wertheimer was afraid of losing his unhappiness and killed himself for this and no other reason, I thought, with

Unsere Bibliotheken sind sozusagen Strafanstalten, in welche wir unsere Geistesgrößen eingesperrt haben, Kant naturgemäß in eine Einzelzelle wie Nietzsche, wie Schopenhauer, wie Pascal, wie Voltaire, wie Montaigne, alle ganz großen in Einzelzellen, alle andern in Massenzellen, aber alle für immer und ewig, mein Lieber, für alle Zeit und in die Unendlichkeit hinein, das ist die Wahrheit.

To exist means nothing other than we despair . . .

Die einzigen Freunde, die ich habe, sind die Toten, die mir ihre Literatur hinterlassen haben, ich habe keine anderen.

Eu sunt un gânditor posesiv.Mi-ar fi pl?cut s? cred c? Goya a pictat numai pentru mine,Gogol ÅŸi Goethe au scris numai pentru mine,Bach a compus numai pnetru mine.Cum aceasta este un paralogism,iar pe deasupra ÅŸi o teribil? infamie,sunt în fond mereu nefericit. Chiar dac? citesc o carte,am totuÅŸi sentimentul ÅŸi înÅ£elegerea c? aceasta c?tre mine a fost scris?,numai pentru mine.

La muerte me muerde sencillamente en el alma y me deja tendido.