Quotes About Isolation

El sentimiento de soledad arrastrado desde la infancia se hizo aún más agudo, pero me consolaba la vaga esperanza de estar marcada por un destino especial que se me revelaría algún día.

y en el atolondramiento del exilio perdí las fotografías que prueban mi paso por aquellos lugares, de modo que aquel pedazo de mi pasado puede ser simplemente un sueño, como tantos que me tuercen la realidad.

Autumn of the Patriarch

Sometimes I am assaulted by the memory of a scene from that time on the street, a memory that flares up inside me and leaves me trembling. Other times I wake up sweating with images in my head, as vivid as if they were real. In the dream I see myself running naked, screaming voicelessly, in a labyrinth of narrow alleys that coil like serpents, buildings with blank doors and windows, not a soul to ask for help, my body burning, my feet bleeding, bile in my mouth, all alone.

No se preguntaba por qué rehuía el amor, ya que la respuesta le parecía obvia: era su ineludible penitencia. Con el tiempo se había acostumbrado a sus hábitos de monje y a ese silencio interno de los que viven y duermen solos.

I like fabrics, colors, makeup, and the routine of putting myself together every morning, even though I spend most of my time locked away in the attic writing. "No one sees me, but I see myself," my mother would comment philosophically

He had always been thin, but there he was reduced to nothing but skin and bones. His skin was burned by the unrelenting sun, salt, and sand, his features sharpened: he was a Giacometti sculpture in cast iron.

She was the only one in the family who did not lose her serenity, thanks to her training in surmounting pain and the fact that her grandmother had often explained to her the circumstances and rituals of death.

Tell Larry I'm not going to the reception, and that he can't count on me for anything for the rest of my life.

el silencio era el último inviolable refugio de mi mujer, y no una enfermedad mental

Imi plac tesaturile, culorile, machiajul si rutina de a ma aranja in fiecare dimineata, cu toate ca majoritatea timpului il petrec inchisa in mansarda si scriind. Nu ma vede nimeni, dar ma vad eu spunea filozofic maica-mea, si nu se referea doar la aspectul fizic, ci si la trasaturile profunde de caracter si comportament.

Alma was so solitary a person that she had never realized how lonely she was.

sólo quedaban sobre la cama dos criaturas desvalidas, con la memoria ausente, flotando en el vacío terrible de tantas palabras calladas.

country. The youngsters became independent; the idea of living isolated in a poor imitation of Japan was finished. We integrated into America.

Era broma, claro, porque lo más temible de la vejez no es la soledad, sino la dependencia.

years. Thanks to them, she was saved from boredom, one of the scourges of old age. The rest of the Lark House community was like the view of the bay: something to be enjoyed from a distance, without getting her feet wet. For

There was no reason to fear the sea, only the living, because, despite their bad reputation, there was no evidence that the dead had ever attacked anyone; if anything, they were naturally timid

lloró largamente a esa mujer que había dedicado su existencia a hacer más cómoda la de otros y que murió sola.

Clinging to the creature developing in her womb, she tried to compensate for the loneliness of a woman who has chosen badly in love' - Paula, p16

Não gostava de pessoas, preferia os gatos. Digeria os humanos em pequenas doses, mais de três provocavam-lhe indigestão. - Alma Belasco

I was glad to see other faces and at the same time disappointed that the war had destroyed the enjoyment of the very experience of meeting people.

This was one of the consequences of the civil war. People stopped trusting each other, and every stranger became an enemy.

Fortunately New Zealand doesn't have land borders so we are able to be somewhat more rigorous on who gets in and out of our country than perhaps some people.

I think it would be impossible not to be an Internet kid, coming from New Zealand, because culturally it's a little barren.