Quotes About Isolation

I don't need anybody here." "Sure you do. Who's going to answer the door while you're asleep in your casket?

Doesn't it bother you, being out in that cottage all alone? Especially with Theo Harp as your only neighbor." "I'm pretty fearless," Annie replied. The puppets in her head fell all over themselves laughing.

me, for whatever twisted reason. That means I've gone

He hates having people around." Then how does he expect to find his next murder victim? Scamp inquired. Unless it's Jaycie . . .

Sometimes you need a friend really badly, but everyone's gone away for the day.

Dear Theo, I've moved into town for a few days to, among other things, adjust to the depressing (boo hoo) prospect of no longer having mind-blowing sex with you. I'm sure you can find me if you try hard enough, but I have stuff to do, and I'm asking you to leave me the hell alone. Be a pal, okay? I'll handle the Witches of Peregrine Island, so stay away from them. A.

It pursues a divide-and-conquer strategy: single versus married women, working women versus homemakers, middle-versus working-class. It manipulates a system of rewards and punishments, elevating women who follow its rules, isolating those who don't. The backlash remarkets old myths about women as new facts and ignores all appeals to reason. Cornered, it denies its own existence, points an accusatory finger at feminism, and burrows deeper underground. Backlash

La montaña más desprovista de vida y más estéril sobre la faz de la Tierra, con el sueño ininterrumpido de años y años cubriendo su soledad, sigue conservando en su cabeza callada la emoción de una pasión poderosa.

But he was a hard man, Mrs Peters. Just to pass the time of day with him—(shivers) Like a raw wind that gets to the bone,

Mrs. Hale had not moved. "If there had been years and years of—nothing, then a bird to sing to you, it would be awful—still—after the bird was still.

There is a circle of humanity, he told me, and I can feel its warmth. But I am forever outside.

I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from each other, the earth, ourselves.

I have sat here at my desk, day after day, night after night, a blank sheet of paper before me, unable to lift my pen, trembling and weeping too.

I felt dead and sick inside.

lonely, very lonely to have a past no one else can share.

Everything became a metaphor, a talisman, a sign that I was still actually connected to people—that I wasn't so completely on my own.

autumn of 1918, I had just started fifth grade when signs began popping up in windows and on doors, on broadsheets plastered on streetlamps around the neighborhood. Suddenly big public gatherings were being discouraged; taverns, moving-picture houses, soda fountains—even churches—grew empty. Nobody knew what it was exactly, except that it started quickly, with a cough and a fever.

I am not forsaken! I'm no longer alone in the darkness! Before my eyes I see a thousand little devils lighting black candles along the path which leads toward the edge...the blindingly beautiful edge.

Like a beleaguered castle her mind was husbanding its resources, boarding every window, locking every door, shutting down unnecessary functions.

I don't even recognize that life and the person living it from my spot on this bed.

the moment I opened up this once locked box of childhood good times, I also allowed all the pain of being deserted, alone, and friendless out too.

She was shrinking into a horrible, ugly thing that no one wanted to see, or speak to, or have anything to do with at all, so she had to get plucked out like a weed, or crushed like a disgusting, mouldy crumb.

Emotional and physical isolation from attachment figures is inherently traumatizing for human beings, bringing with it a heightened sense, not simply of vulnerability and danger, but also of helplessness (Mikulincer, Shaver, & Pereg, 2003).

Online chatting, on the other hand, has been linked to symptoms of loneliness, confusion, anxiety, depression, fatigue, and addiction.