Quotes About Isolation

it felt as if she'd floated up above the clouds to the edge of space and was now surrounded by a vacuum of nothing. No air, no wind, no feeling in her body. As

It had been years since anybody had wanted to listen again. The world had moved on. They had not.

Jack sank further and further into himself like he was made of tinfoil, easily crushed. Despite

When death visits, it's every man for himself.

When a person you love moves by you with flat eyes that will not see you, it is a shock to believe it.

At first, I made a list of the difficult things that I was experiencing myself, like memory loss, sore knees, and fear of loneliness, and I set out to write an essay about each one.

Ghetto living is more than just a feeling of confinement; it is a sense of suffocation too.

almost every face and every voice and scrap of language in this world rises up through a screen or wire like something coming to the surface from the bottom of a lake, or on the other side of some mirrored glass where you can't quite touch it.

Not all relationships should or can be saved. Overthinking your relationship does nothing but tear you down, push you toward isolation, and increase the likelihood that you will make unwise decisions about it.

I work at home, in the country, and days will go by when, except for my husband and son and the occasional UPS man, the only sentient creatures that see me are my chickens and turkeys.

I would argue that it might be easier to endure loneliness than to endure the idea that you might disappear.

There is nothing more melancholy than empty festive places.

a brutal sense of loneliness, eased only by a place like the library, where lonely people can feel slightly less lonely together.

No matter how much help you ask for, cultivating these spiritual qualities is something you have to do within yourself, and it requires solitude. So if you feel like locking your door, closing the blinds, and retreating from the world, this is probably a good idea. Sit with the darkness. Allow it to teach you. This is a very brave thing to do.

In Albert Einstein's words, "I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.

I had never felt so lonely and so sad in my entire life.

Depression is melancholy minus its charms.

There are silences and there are silences; some are wordless, yet you communicate; others are like loud black voids which separate and isolate people.

Houses, like people, are apt to become rather eccentric if left too much on their own; this house was the architectural equivalent of an old gentleman in a worn dressing-gown and torn slippers, who got up and went to bed at odd times of day, and who kept up a continual conversation with friends no one else could see.

I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment.

Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco.

I was trying to explain my situation to myself. My situation was that I was in pain and nobody knew it, even I had trouble knowing it. So I told myself, over and over, You are in pain. It was the only way I could get through to myself. I was demonstrating externally and irrefutably an inward condition.

I know what it's like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can't. How you hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside.

They stopped talking the moment they saw me, as if they were speaking some language I couldn't even begin to understand. And they probably were.