Quotes About Isolation

The world is paralyzed, and humanity is in quarantine. It is a strange symmetry that I was born in one pandemic and will die during another.

No era un dolor de músculos entumecidos, sino de tristezas acumuladas y de abandono

Very few old folk are happy, Irina. Most of them are poor, aren't healthy, and have no family. It's the most fragile and difficult stage of life, more so than childhood, because it grows worse day by day, and there is no future other than death.

Se encerraba en su habitación a escuchar sus sinfonías predilectas y deleitarse en su propia tristeza

An invisible border arose between the parts of the house occupied by Esteban Trueba and those occupied by his wife. In response to Clara's imagination and the requirements of the moment, the noble, seigniorial architecture began sprouting all sorts of extra little rooms, staircases, turrets, and terraces...the big house on the corner soon came to resemble a labyrinth.

I was alone, without a single cent, in an unknown country. If I'd learned anything from last year's ill-fated adventures, though, it was not to get overwhelmed by minor inconveniences.

become a ghost. They've killed several

Clara no volvió a hablar a su marido nunca más en su vida.

I stroke them, and they always like that, because old people don't have anyone who touches them, and I get them hooked on a TV series, because nobody wants to die before the final episode. Some of them find comfort in prayer, but there are lots of atheists here, and they don't pray. What's most important is not to leave them on their own.

I was so drained I felt as if I were staring through a telescope at the light of a star dead for a million years.

My poor Isabel. Here, take this and write. Unburden your heart; if you don't you are going to die of anguish.

el dolor es un camino solitario.

I am frightened. I have known fear before, but there was always an escape; even during the terror of the military coup there was the salvation of exile. Now I am in a blind alley with all doors closed to hope, and I don't know how to handle so much fear.

El espectro de la pobreza, como el de la soledad, rondaba siempre a los viejos.

Her stoic attitude contributed to the air of mystery surrounding her, long before she had any secrets to keep.

Conociendo bien su destino, se cuidaba de las mujeres y a lo largo de su vida huyó de todo contacto sentimental, secando su corazón para el amor y limitándose a encuentros rápidos para burlar la soledad

I need nothing, he told himself with the cunning pride of those with a calling for solitude.

Se había alejado de la acción y había acabado encerrado en su mundo académico, lejos de la dura realidad de los pobres en América Latina.

She learned to bear her troubles alone and with dignity, convinced no one was interested in other people's problems, and that pain borne in silence eventually evaporated.

It occurs to me that this sobriety, so deeply rooted in my family, as well as our habit of veiling our happiness or well-being, was founded in the embarrassment we felt when we saw the poverty all around us.

De vez en cuando lo atrapaba una ansiedad injustificada; para eso contaba con sus pastillas verdes. En esas ocasiones sentía que iba cayendo de manera irremisible en la oscuridad helada del fondo del mar y no había alguien cerca para tenderle una mano y jalarlo a la superficie.

You've completely forgotten what it takes to raise a child, Mr. Bogart. And this girl is traumatized -- she misses her mother, she's been pulled away from everything she knows, her family, her friends, her school, her community, her language. Can you imagine what that must be like?

Fear? Yes, there was fear, but also uncertainty, emotional dependence, force of habit, and the rule of silence that impeded me from talking about what was happening; I isolated myself.

Me gustan las telas, los colores, el maquillaje y la rutina de arreglarme cada mañana, aunque paso la mayor parte del tiempo encerrada en el ático escribiendo. «Nadie me ve, pero yo me veo a mí misma», como decía mi madre filosóficamente, sin referirse